We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
~By William Godwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
~By Ralph Bakshi ~
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
~By Norman Mailer ~
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
~By Gordon Getty ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
~By Emma Goldman ~
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
~By Joe Slovo ~
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 ~
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 ~
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
~By Hu Shih ~
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.
~By Howard Stern ~
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
~By Herman Gorter ~
This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!
~By Peter Stone ~
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
~By Duong Van Minh ~
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
~By Georges Sorel ~
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
~By C. L. R. James ~
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
~By Pierre Boulez ~
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
~By Johann Most ~
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
~By Howard Nemerov ~
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~By John T. Flynn ~
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
~By Albert Camus ~
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
~By Francois Guizot ~
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
~By Marilyn Ferguson ~
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
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 ~
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
~By Karel Capek ~
After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.
~By Fanny Kaplan ~
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
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 ~
All revolutions devour their own children.
~By Ernst Rohm ~
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
~By George Cuvier ~
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.
~By Ernst Toller ~
I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.
~By Tom Metzger ~
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 ~
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
~By Bobby Seale ~
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
~By Kim Jong Il ~
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 ~
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 main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
~By Jean Genet ~
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
~By Rosa Luxemburg ~
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 ~
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
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 ~
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
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 ~
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
~By Germaine Greer ~
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
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 ~
Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
~By Daniel Berrigan ~
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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 American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
~By Robert Trout ~
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 ~
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 ~
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
~By Raymond Queneau ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Revolutions are always verbose.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
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 ~
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
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 ~
As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
~By Percy Wyndham Lewis ~
I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.
~By Lee Child ~
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 ~
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
~By Jane Fonda ~
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
~By Georg Buchner ~
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
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 ~
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
~By Fidel Castro ~
We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
~By James Levine ~
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 ~
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 ~
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
~By Adolf Loos ~
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 ~
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
~By Jose Ortega y Gasset ~
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
~By Paul Gauguin ~
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
~By Bernie Sanders ~
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