Revolution Quotes - Page 38

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.

If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change