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Quotes About Revolution

Others might point to the warning that the most dangerous thing in science is the idea that arrives before its time.
~ John D. Barrow
The old debate between mind and matter is fast becoming as antiquated as a debate about the relative merits of various sorts of fountain pens. "Matter" is going out of style. The electron is turning out to be the Cartesian "pineal gland" which mediates in the obsolete opposition of mind and matter as the lines between these two antagonists in the ancient dualism are blurred by the electronic revolution.
~ John D. Caputo
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.
~ John Dewey
When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.
~ Joel Madden
New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.
~ Julian Smith
It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.
~ Alan Vega
I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Manalive
My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.
~ Angela Merkel
You must change your life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
~ Rita Mae Brown
In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.
~ Alejandro Castro Espin
Compared to the way in which final causality has – in actual practice, if not in theory and rhetoric – maintained its grip on biological thinking, the Darwinian "revolution" is a trivial blip on the continued silent and unacknowledged hegemony of Aristotle.
~ Edward Feser
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
No, no guns, they won't get us anywhere. I tried that when I was young and it's a useless interim game. Use guns and you're no better than the Black and Tans and that's not good enough.
~ Edward Whittemore
Every beauty is the revolution for a sex transmission.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One, who voices, for revolution and stays for its people than own belongings and beloved ones, becomes and proves a real and true revolutionary.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The change of the system is a weak revolution; whereas, the changing of the thoughts is a great revolution. It prevails.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Total liberty for Black people or total destruction for America.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
Revolutionary power grows out of the lips of a pussy
~ Eldridge Cleaver
está acontecendo algo de grandioso, que vai dissolver completamente o velho modo de viver, e eu sou parte dessa dissolução.
~ Elena Ferrante
In hyperbolic tones he listed the catastrophes that in his view were approaching: one, the decline of the revolutionary subject par excellence, the working class; two, the definitive dispersion of the political patrimony of socialists and Communists, who were already perverted by their daily quarrel over which was playing the role of capital's crutch; three, the end of every hypothesis of change, what was there was there and we would have to adapt to it.
~ Elena Ferrante
He turned to Marirosa, as if irritated by the too private note of our exchange: "Elena is asking what there is to do." Mariarosa answered cheerfully: "The revolution." So I assumed a mocking tone, I said: "And in your free time?
~ Elena Ferrante
I concluded by saying that the world urgently needed to be changed, that there were too many tyrants who kept peoples enslaved. But it should be changed by peaceful means.
~ Elena Ferrante
Los priístas usan un lenguaje revolucionario, emplean términos muy avanzados, y sin embargo un campesino, sin palabras, sin lenguaje, con su sola actitud, es más revolucionario que todos nosotros juntos. Pablo Gómez, estudiante de la Escuela de Economía de la UNAM y de las Juventudes Comunistas.
~ Elena Poniatowska