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Quotes About Revolution

Science advances one funeral at a time.
~ Max Planck
I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.
~ Leigh Anne Tuohy
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
~ Vladimir Lenin
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
~ Josephine de Beauharnais
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
~ Havelock Ellis
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
~ Joseph Stalin
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
~ Robert Breault
our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up
~ Roger Penrose
Enough is enough and it's time for a change.
~ Owen Hart
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
~ Joe Slovo
Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
~ Karl Marx
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.
~ Peter Thiel
The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour….
~ Oliver Evans
I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.
~ Kanye West
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
~ Fidel Castro
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
~ Arundhati Roy
We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.
~ Thomas Bangalter
The most important thing... was to change their spirit; and since at that time I felt that literature was the best means to this end, I decided to promote literary movement.
~ Lu Xun
By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
~ Billy Bragg
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
~ Samuel P. Huntington