Permanent Revolution Quotes

#1. This is Communism's view of war. War is necessary. War is an instrument for achieving a goal.

But unfortunately for Communism, this policy ran up against the American atomic bomb in 1945. Then the Communists changed their tactics and suddenly became advocates of peace at any cost.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#2. The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

Harry Lloyd

#3. I believe in permanent revolution.

Germaine Greer

#4. There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another, and light gives them shape.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#5. And we find at the end of a perfect day, The soul of a friend we've made.

Carrie Jacobs-Bond

#6. She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

Hussain S. Zaidi

#7. But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

T. S. Eliot

#8. Think about what he likes and what he's interested in. Something personal is always better than something expensive.

Tamara Summers

#9. I distrust the slightest hint of a standard for political rectitude, knowing that it will open the way for persons in authority to set arbitrary standards of human behavior.

E.B. White

#10. I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

Joel Coen

#11. Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

Nick Joaquin

#12. It's striking and unique in London how you know to create this alchemy between the concept, the food, the music, the staff. From the beginning to the end, with all these different elements, it tells a full story that you know very well how to develop and cultivate.

Alain Ducasse

#13. Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Steven Wright

#14. Service ... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

MC Frontalot

#15. It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

Patrick Ness

#16. May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!

Hilary Mantel

#17. The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Jean Baudrillard

#18. If we are growing holier, we are growing kinder.

Andrew Bonar

#19. are three main types of memory in the human brain;

Ryan Cooper

#20. I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Stephen Covey

#21. There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

Gro Harlem Brundtland