Revolution Quotes

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

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!

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

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.

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.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

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.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

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.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

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.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

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.

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.

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.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.