Quotes About Revolution

We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.

Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

This approach was typical of the Industrial Age: inadvertently removing something essential for human health, discovering it was essential for human health—and then developing an industrial method to add it back in.

It would appear that what is required is a kind of cultural ego death, more profoundly shattering (a word that many abductees use when they acknowledge the actuality of their experiences) than the Copernican revolution which demonstrated that the earth, and therefore humankind, did not reside at the center of the cosmos.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]

The musket made the infantryman and the infantryman made the democrat.

Empires exist for the benefit of the parent state. That, and the fact that the colonists eventually came to appreciate this truth, goes a long way toward explaining the origins of the American Revolution. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authorities in London, the seat of Great Britain's empire,

Jefferson subsequently came to believe that Henry's speech attacking the Stamp Act had been "the dawn of the Revolution."36

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

GREAT ADVANCES DO NOT COME OUT OF SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE GREAT ADVANCES.

People make trouble, trouble makes history

who went on to write one of Louis XVI and a good synography of Robespierre. They

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.

Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don't eat rice.