Top 100 Quotes About A Revolution
#1. A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically incomplete.
Terry Eagleton
#2. Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Otto Von Bismarck
#3. Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.
M.J. Stoddard
#4. The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
#5. I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.
Justin Vernon
#6. The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.
Russell Brand
#7. suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.
Frank Tayell
#9. I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us.
Russell Brand
#10. The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Seth Godin
#12. People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.
Henrik Ibsen
#13. What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.
Steve Wozniak
#14. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
#15. People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system ... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them ...
Malcolm X
#16. You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
Che Guevara
#17. Putting her trust in God, she displayed the same optimistic excitement on the eve of a garden party or on the eve of a revolution, whereby her hasty gestures seemed to exorcise radicalism or inclement weather.
Marcel Proust
#18. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.
Mark Twain
#20. The battles over women's bodies can be won only by a revolution of the mind
Mona Eltahawy
#21. And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.
John F. Kennedy
#22. We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.
William Easterly
#23. If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.
Jacob Schiff
#24. Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a path of gradual evolution into the man I ultimately want to become, I am going to run out of time before I reach the goal.
Steve Sabol
#25. There is of course one thing that the French love more than anything else: a revolution. They literally cannot get enough.
@Queen_UK
#26. If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.
Albert Meltzer
#27. Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.
Jack Dorsey
#28. Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
Wendell Phillips
#29. And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
Terence McKenna
#30. If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.
George Sweeting
#31. It takes a revolution, to create a solution
Bob Marley
#32. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#33. If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. Jesus never taught revolution, the kind with swords and battles and bloodshed. He talked about a revolution of love. Love your neighbor. Love your enemy.
Janette Oke
#36. This very slight change had worked a revolution.
Victor Hugo
#37. The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.
Virginia Woolf
#38. Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
Erik Naggum
#39. There's no turning back ... We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart ...
Cesar Chavez
#40. A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
Murray Kempton
#41. I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.
Meagan Earls
#42. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Tse-tung
#43. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population.
Sinclair Lewis
#44. I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.
Bassem Youssef
#45. Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill Hicks
#46. Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Ignazio Silone
#47. I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.
David Bowie
#48. Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. Let's have ourselves a revolution.
Mira Grant
#51. One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.
Slavoj Zizek
#52. Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#53. This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!
Peter Stone
#54. We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
Cesar Chavez
#55. We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives - actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11.
Michael Lister
#56. It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.
Agatha Christie
#57. In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#58. One person is enough to inspire the world. One quote can quench the souls of millions. One voice can start a revolution. One dream can tap into the dreams of many, naturally strengthened
as it grows to inspire an ever-increasing number of people.
Elaina Marie
#59. Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
Bonnie Raitt
#60. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
Robert M. Pirsig
#61. Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion
Robert Greene
#62. I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
Bonnie Raitt
#63. In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one
Che Guevara
#64. No one has the right to lead other people like sheep. That's something even Lenin failed to understand. The purpose of a revolution is to free people. But Lenin just said: In the past you were led badly, I'm going to lead you well.
Vasily Grossman
#65. Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.
John Adams
#66. The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.
David Icke
#67. Sons of a revolution fight for liberty. They give blood, flesh, limbs, their very lives. But daughters . . . we sacrifice our eternal souls.
Laura Kamoie
#68. If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.
Perry Farrell
#69. You said yourself that the people of Luna need a revolutionary." She lifted her chin, holding his gaze. "So I'm going to Luna, and I'm going to start a revolution.
Marissa Meyer
#71. A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.
Rudolf Arnheim
#72. And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
Michael Stipe
#73. There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.
Ernest Mandel
#74. I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
John Lydon
#75. A mansion begins with one brick.
A forest begins with one tree.
A harvest begins with one seed.
An ocean begins with one drop.
A friendship begins with one gesture.
A fire begins with one spark.
A revolution begins with one idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. 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.
Juan Goytisolo
#77. What's the point of a revolution
without general
copulation copulation copulation
Peter Weiss
#78. No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand
#80. It is unusual," said Cristina, "for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Cassandra Clare
#81. Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#82. It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry
#84. A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#85. I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.
Gene Baur
#86. It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.
Sharron Angle
#87. What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
Joseph De Maistre
#88. China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
James Lovelock
#89. Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives.
Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#90. The big problem is that people don't believe a revolution is possible, and it is not possible precisely because they do not believe it is possible.
Theodore Kaczynski
#91. A revolution was inevitably coming; the earth was destined to be reclaimed, renewed and revived.
Shizette Parker
#92. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.
Enver Hoxha
#93. If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#94. I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.
Katherine Center
#95. Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
Heinrich Heine
#96. You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
Le Corbusier
#97. We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.
Tony Buzan
#98. Remind me to start a revolution about that later.
Shonda Rhimes
#99. Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people
is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see
anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its
brother death, seem so contented.
Sinclair Lewis
#100. You need a revolution in your life so as to know the plot of the devil and discover the thoughts of the Lord toward you
Sunday Adelaja
