Revolutions Quotes

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

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.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

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.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

All revolutions devour their own children.

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.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

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.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Revolutions are always verbose.

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.

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.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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.

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.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

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.