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 ~
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ~By Ernest Mandel ~
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ~By Raymond Queneau ~
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? ~By Dorothy Day ~
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. ~By Charles James Fox ~
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. ~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. ~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. ~By Georg Buchner ~
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen. ~By Randall Terry ~
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. ~By John Boehner ~
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. ~By Terry Eagleton ~
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ~By John Acton ~
It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious. ~By Kim Il Sung ~
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ~By Norman Mailer ~
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. ~By Gertrude Stein ~
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 ~
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 ~
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. ~By Norman Borlaug ~
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 ~
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. ~By Steve Buyer ~
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future. ~By Lajos Kossuth ~
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. ~By Agnes Smedley ~
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. ~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. ~By Millicent Fawcett ~
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. ~By Vinoba Bhave ~
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. ~By C. L. R. James ~
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ~By Walter Lippmann ~
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. ~By Dario Fo ~
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. ~By Barbara Deming ~
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~By Eric Hoffer ~
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. ~By C. Wright Mills ~
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. ~By Emma Goldman ~
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. ~By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ~
All revolutions devour their own children. ~By Ernst Rohm ~
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 ~
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. ~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! ~By Peter Stone ~
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. ~By Christopher Lasch ~
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. ~By Fidel Castro ~
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. ~By Johann Most ~
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ~By Gustav Heinemann ~
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. ~By Ernst Toller ~
After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it. ~By Fanny Kaplan ~
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. ~By Paul Berg ~
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. ~By Ignazio Silone ~
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. ~By Fidel Castro ~
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. ~By Rod Parsley ~
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ~By Orison Swett Marden ~
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ~By Ursula K. LeGuin ~
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ~By John Stuart Mill ~
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ~By Wyndham Lewis ~
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 ~
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. ~By George Orwell ~
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ~By Mao Zedong ~
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer. ~By Samuel E. Morison ~
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. ~By Emma Goldman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ~By Huey Newton ~
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. ~By C. L. R. James ~
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 ~
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. ~By Karl Liebknecht ~
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ~By John Moody ~
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. ~By Bob Schaffer ~
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. ~By Vinoba Bhave ~
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. ~By Florence Kelley ~
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. ~By H. Rap Brown ~
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ~By Douglas Engelbart ~
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 ~
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. ~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago. ~By Joe Baca ~
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. ~By Mark Hopkins ~
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. ~By Romano Prodi ~
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. ~By Muammar al Gaddafi ~
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 ~
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. ~By Jane Fonda ~
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. ~By Wynton Marsalis ~
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ~By Jung Chang ~
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. ~By Mitch McConnell ~
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ~By Adlai Stevenson ~
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. ~By Milton Friedman ~
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ~By Franz Kafka ~
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 problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. ~By Anna Quindlen ~
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ~By Pierre Boulez ~
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. ~By Victor Hugo ~
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. ~By William Hooper ~
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ~By John Mortimer ~
The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction. ~By Fernando Wood ~
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ~By Germaine Greer ~
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. ~By Paulo Freire ~
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. ~By Che Guevara ~
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. ~By Bianca Jagger ~
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. ~By Nadia Comaneci ~
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. ~By Garet Garrett ~
Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. ~By Ron Reagan ~
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ~By Jean Genet ~
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