Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
~By Henry Miller ~
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
~By Frederica Montseny ~
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
~By Scott Cook ~
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!
~By Peter Stone ~
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
~By Norm Dicks ~
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
~By Barbara Deming ~
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
~By Martha Beck ~
If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.
~By Perry Farrell ~
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
~By Bela Kun ~
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
~By Herman Gorter ~
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
~By Edmund Burke ~
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
~By Andre Norton ~
Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.
~By Mort Kondracke ~
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
~By Fidel Castro ~
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
~By Georg Buchner ~
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
~By Randall Terry ~
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
~By Harold Wilson ~
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
~By Fidel Castro ~
History is a relay of revolutions.
~By Saul Alinsky ~
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
The seed of revolution is repression.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
~By Guy Debord ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
~By Albert Camus ~
I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
~By George Orwell ~
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.
~By Scott Cook ~
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
~By Dario Fo ~
All revolutions devour their own children.
~By Ernst Rohm ~
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.
~By Judah Philip Benjamin ~
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
~By George Weah ~
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
~By Jose Saramago ~
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
~By Huey Newton ~
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
~By Karl Marx ~
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
~By Ludwig von Mises ~
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
~By H. G. Wells ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
~By Thomas Kuhn ~
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~By George Orwell ~
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~By Fidel Castro ~
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
~By Mark Poster ~
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
~By Scott Cook ~
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
~By Wilhelm von Humboldt ~
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
Every generation needs a new revolution.
~By Jeff Rich ~
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
~By Ernst Toller ~
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
I was born in revolution.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
~By Adolf Loos ~
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
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