Revolutions Quotes

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

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.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Revolutions are born of hope.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

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.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

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.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

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.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

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.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

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.

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

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.