Quotes About Revolution

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

The greatest events- they are not noisiest but our stillest hours. The world revolves, not around the inventors of new noises, but around the inventors of new values; it revolves inaudibly.

The revolution made Napoleon possible: that is its justification. For the sake of a similar prize one would have to desire the anarchical collapse of our entire civilisation.

The commencement of all great things in the world is thoroughly and continuously saturated with blood.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Mary!—we poor creatures of earth are stumbling over our freedoms, fumbling over our choices. Millions of us are seeking to give up their freedom—some by repudiating it, because of the burden of their guilt—some, by surrendering it to the moods and fashions of the time—others, by absorption into Communism, where there is only one will, which is the dictator's, and where the only love is hate and revolution!

No matter what the ladies' contribution, the Revolution was not fought to prove that all women were created equal.

E pur si muove. (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun .)

Y sin embargo, se mueve! (Eppur si muove)

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.

I'm proud of my record at the Revs - 299 games, 110 wins, 108 draws, 81 losses - but even if I was to get the chance to coach those last two years again - 2010 and 2011 - I reckon I'd still have found it difficult to ensure a different outcome.

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of China be strengthened, and that people's livelihood and welfare be pursued.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

The revolution of blockchain is not going to happen from outside the system; it's going to happen from within the system.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.