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 ~
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 ~
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
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 ~
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 ~
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
~By Huey Newton ~
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
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.
~By C. L. R. James ~
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
~By George Orwell ~
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
We are revolutionaries.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.
~By Herman Gorter ~
If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.
~By John Linder ~
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 ~
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 ~
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
~By David Bohm ~
I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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 ~
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
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 ~
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
~By Henry Lawson ~
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
~By Henry Ford ~
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
~By Albert Camus ~
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
~By Hugo Black ~
The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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 ~
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
~By Robin Morgan ~
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
~By Ursula K. LeGuin ~
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
~By Georg Buchner ~
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
~By David McCullough ~
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
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 ~
Reform is China's second revolution.
~By Deng Xiaoping ~
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
~By Malcolm X ~
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
~By John Andrew Holmes ~
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
~By Karl Marx ~
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
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 ~
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
~By Bill Hicks ~
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
~By Johann Most ~
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.
~By Adolf Galland ~
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
~By Erykah Badu ~
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 ~
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
~By Michael Chabon ~
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
~By Marvin Harris ~
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 ~
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
~By George William Russell ~
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
~By Jose Saramago ~
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
~By Robert Trout ~
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 ~
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
~By John Corigliano ~
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 ~
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 ~
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
~By Maya Angelou ~
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
~By Bianca Jagger ~
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
~By Sam Ervin ~
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.
~By Joan Blades ~
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
~By Andre Malraux ~
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
~By Fred Hampton ~
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
~By Adolf Loos ~
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
~By Saunders Lewis ~
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
~By Fidel Castro ~
After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.
~By Fanny Kaplan ~
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
~By Bela Bartok ~
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 ~
Revolutions are born of hope.
~By Crane Brinton ~
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 ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Percy Wyndham Lewis ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
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 ~
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
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 ~
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
~By Nick Clooney ~
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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