quotes about Revolution
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
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The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
-- Abbie HoffmanSource : Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.184, Da Capo Press
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You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,
-- Abdullah OcalanSource : "Who is Abdullah Ocalan?" by Beat Witschi, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2005.
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Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest
-- Adam Braun -
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.
-- Adam MichnikSource : "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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.
-- Adolfo Suarez, 1st Duke of Suarez -
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You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
-- Afeni Shakur -
I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
-- Aja Monet -
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.
-- Alan Kay -
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
-- Albert Camus -
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
-- Albert Camus -
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
-- Albert Camus -
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If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
-- Albert Meltzer -
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
-- Albie SachsSource : Albie Sachs (2011). “The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter”, p.133, Souvenir Press
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Our countrymen have all the folly of the ***** and all the passiveness of the sheep.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
-- Alfred RosenbergSource : "The Face Of The Third Reich". Book by Joachim C. Fest, Chapter 13, Part 3, 1970.
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There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
-- Alfredo Stroessner -
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
-- Alice Walker -
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.
-- Andrei GrechkoSource : "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse". Book by Stephen Kotkin, p. 58, 2001.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
-- Angela Davis -
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
-- Antonio Gramsci -
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
-- Aristotle -
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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.
-- Ashraf DehghaniSource : "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
-- Audre LordeSource : "Sister Outsider". Book by Audre Lorde, 1984.
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When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
-- August Strindberg -
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
-- Augusto Boal -
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Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
-- Ayi Kwei Armah -
When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.
-- Azar Nafisi -
Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
-- Ba JinSource : "Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese". Book by Khoon Choy Lee, 2005.
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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.
-- Ba JinSource : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
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To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
-- Bell Hooks -
In politics experiments means revolutions.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
-- Benjamin Hawkins -
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
-- Benjamin RushSource : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
-- Bernard BailynSource : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.
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In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
-- Bernard BailynSource : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.302, Harvard University Press
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought
-- Bernard BailynSource : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.26, Harvard University Press
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There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy -
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
-- Betty FriedanSource : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
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The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
-- Bianca Jagger -
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
-- Bill Ayers -
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
-- Bill Haywood -
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
-- Bill Hicks -
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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
-- Bill Viola -
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
-- Bob SchafferSource : "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.
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Adam Johnson was a revolution when he came on
-- Bobby Gould -
The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!
-- Bobby SealeSource : Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown
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I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
-- Bonnie RaittSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.
-- Bruce LaBruce -
Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything!
-- Bryant H. McGill -
One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
-- C. L. R. James -
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
-- C. L. R. James -
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real
-- C. Wright MillsSource : Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.77, Feminist Press at CUNY
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There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
-- Camille Desmoulins -
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
-- Camille Desmoulins -
But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.
-- Carl SafinaSource : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.52, Macmillan
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To those who had ordered them to death one of them said: 'We die because the people are asleep... you will die because the people will awaken'.
-- Carl Sandburg -
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Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.
-- Caspar Weinberger -
We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!
-- Catherine Doherty -
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.
-- Charles A. Reich -
I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.
-- Charles Alexandre de Calonne -
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Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
-- Charles Bukowski -
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
-- Charles James FoxSource : Speech to the House of Commons, December 10, 1785.
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Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
-- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden -
In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one
-- Che Guevara -
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
-- Che Guevara -
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
-- Chester Himes -
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?
-- Chris Hayes -
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By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
-- Christian Dior -
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
-- Christina Stead -
A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors
-- Clay Shirky -
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It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.
-- Clay Shirky -
If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.
-- Clay Shirky -
Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.
-- Clinton Rossiter -
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
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Revolution is the industry of young men.
-- Craig JohnsonSource : Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.22, Penguin
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The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.
-- Craig Shirley -
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
-- Daniel BerriganSource : Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House
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