Revolution Quotes - Page 42

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not one which is dominated by billionaire campaign contributors. It's time for a political revolution. It's time to make our government work for all of us, and not just the 1%.

In politics experiments means revolutions.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.

There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing in a number of countries, we had radicals and we had Nasserism. Today it's a little bit more complicated.

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

America has undergone a total food and wine revolution.

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a succession of revolutions, is, in reality, a series of developements.

That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control