Top 100 Revolution Is Quotes
#1. Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught
Sunday Adelaja
#2. The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.
Gustave Le Bon
#3. Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it ... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.
Jerry Rubin
#4. The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.
Simone Weil
#5. 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
#6. The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.
Bill Gates
#7. The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
John Corigliano
#8. We need to understand, to really grasp at an elemental level, that the definitive revolution is the spiritual awakening of humankind.
Rory McEntee
#9. One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or hazard.
Herbert Hoover
#10. Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
Paulo Freire
#11. When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#13. Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
Vladimir Lenin
#14. There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects.
Daniella Alonso
#15. Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreessen
#16. The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
Michael Franti
#17. No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
#18. They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#20. The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
Vivienne Westwood
#21. Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
Kenneth Rexroth
#22. Without new visions, we don't know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but we forget that making a revolution is not a series of clever maneuvers and tactics, but a process that can and must transform us
Robin D.G. Kelley
#23. But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#26. 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
#27. Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier.
William S. Burroughs
#29. Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. and as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist, and by all means, resist.
Dominique Christina
#30. The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right.
Stathis Kouvelakis
#31. The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
Malcolm X
#32. We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#33. Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
Volkmar Sigusch
#34. Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.
Twitter post, July 29, 2012
Gore Vidal
#35. Every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.
Rebecca West
#36. Revolution is impossible until it's inevitable.
Leon Trotsky
#38. Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill Hicks
#39. 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
#40. Justice has its anger, Monsieur Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. No matter what they say, the French Revolution is the greatest advance taken by mankind since the coming of Christ.
Victor Hugo
#41. 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
#42. The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.
Alexander Kerensky
#43. Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.
Bryant McGill
#44. The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Che Guevara
#45. Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#46. One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
Fidel Castro
#47. Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
Tim Cook
#48. If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?
Malcolm Gladwell
#49. I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
Grace Lee Boggs
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
Rebecca Solnit
#53. Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#54. The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
Ulysses S. Grant
#55. The real revolution is the revolution of values
Peter Joseph
#56. Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Victor Hugo
#57. Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
Midge Decter
#58. 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
#59. Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
Che Guevara
#60. The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
Stephen Jay Gould
#61. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
Ernesto Che Guevara
#64. The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe ... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
John F. Kennedy
#65. The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
#66. Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions
Max Stirner
#67. The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#68. The worst of these politics of revolution is this: they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions. But
Edmund Burke
#70. A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.
Ambrose Bierce
#72. A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
#75. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.
Victor Hugo
#76. The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison
#77. Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
George Lincoln Rockwell
#78. The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.
Kim Jong Il
#79. The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
Ernst Toller
#80. The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.
Hilary Mantel
#81. The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.
Timothy Leary
#82. If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
Sun Yat-sen
#83. War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
Anonymous
#84. A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
#85. The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man ... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
Jean Genet
#86. The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.
Sukarno
#87. Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.
Rosalind Miles
#88. A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.
Kate Millett
#89. What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
Doris Lessing
#90. Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.
Malcolm X
#91. It is a mistake to think that the national revolution is only political and economic. It is above all cultural. We stand in the first stormy phase of revolution.
Lynn H. Nicholas
#92. My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I'm not bullshitting.
Charles Bukowski
#93. Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
Wendell Phillips
#94. The revolution is here. It's established that Netflix is a place where you can get premium content. It's a whole new world. It's very interesting. We'll be discovering it together. It's going to be interesting because they don't have a lot to compare it to.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#96. A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor Burns
#97. To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns.
Frances M. Beal
#99. Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly.
Mao Zedong
#100. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.
Frank Watson Dyson
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