Revolution Quotes - Page 29

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to dovetail our technologies - our brains to our tools. With the Industrial Revolution, we transcended the limits of our muscles. With the digital revolution, we transcend the limits of our minds.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.