Revolution Quotes - Page 40

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.

One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

The powerful don't make revolutions

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.