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Quotes About Revolution

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War, I would begin it myself.
~ Augustus Sol Invictus
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
~ Emanuel Celler
I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
~ Lata Mangeshkar
I'm glad to be a part of the era which has witnessed a huge revolution. Be it politics, cinema, sports, business or any other arena, women across the globe including India are in great form mentally, physically and consciously to undertake greater responsibilities and tougher challenges that are often encountered on paths less travelled.
~ Sherlyn Chopra
When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.
~ Chrystia Freeland
I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
~ Irwin Winkler
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.
~ Joan Didion
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
~ Madeleine Albright
We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.
~ Lisa Bonet
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.
~ Lidia Bastianich
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
~ Angelina Grimke
The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
~ Leon Trotsky
Very dangerous things, theories.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
~ Charles A. Beard
The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.
~ James Tobin
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
~ Michael Shermer
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
~ A. N. Wilson
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
~ Henry Rollins
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.
~ Johann Most
The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.
~ Johann Most