For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
~By Aeschines ~
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
~By Ernst Toller ~
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
~By Francis Parkman ~
By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
~By Emma Goldman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
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 ~
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.
~By Larry Summers ~
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~By Franz Kafka ~
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
~By Avi Arad ~
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
~By Ken Kesey ~
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 ~
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
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 revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
~By Fidel Castro ~
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
~By Antonio Gramsci ~
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
~By Janos Kadar ~
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
~By Charles James Fox ~
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~By Francesco Guicciardini ~
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
~By Bryan Magee ~
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
~By Mary Daly ~
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 ~
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
~By Huey Newton ~
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
~By Ursula K. LeGuin ~
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~By Mao Zedong ~
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?
~By Francis Bond Head ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
~By Mike Tyson ~
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
~By Karl Marx ~
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
~By Steven Levy ~
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.
~By Laura Dern ~
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
~By Albert Camus ~
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
~By Steve Buyer ~
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
~By Georg Buchner ~
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
~By C. L. R. James ~
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
~By James Lovelock ~
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 ~
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
~By Thomas Sankara ~
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 ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
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 ~
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 ~
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
~By Gordon Getty ~
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
~By Scott Cook ~
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
~By Bill Shuster ~
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
We are revolutionaries.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
~By Nick Cave ~
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
~By Barbara Deming ~
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
~By Phil Ochs ~
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.
~By Paul Deman ~
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
~By Harold Wilson ~
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
~By Victor Hugo ~
This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
~By Chris Wedge ~
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
~By Kate Millett ~
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
~By Karl Liebknecht ~
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
~By Emma Goldman ~
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
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 ~
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
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 ~
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
~By Joe Slovo ~
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
~By Frank Herbert ~
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 ~
Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
~By Mark Poster ~
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.
~By Robert Bourassa ~
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 revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
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 ~
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle.
~By Fred Hampton ~
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 ~
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
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 ~
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