Quotes About Revolution

We are defending our process, we are defending our revolution, which continues to be threatened, which continues to be attacked.

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

Thriller' reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived. It's a big cliche how your priorities change, but every parent knows that sometimes there's a thunderstorm, and you look at his eyes, and everything is all right. It is a revolution of everything you feel.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.

The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.

the fires of a nation about to be born, she went out in the fiery blaze of a nation at war with itself.

Becoming switched on is about forgetting the "this is how we've always done it" mentality and wiping the slate clean

Henceforward burn what thou hast worshipped, and worship what thou hast burned.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history.

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

History is ours, and the People will make it.

History is ours, and it is made by the people.

Koliko ?e biti potrebno revolucija, koliko ratova da bismo se vratili onoj izuzetno reakcionarnoj istini da je 'strogost' prvi uslov svake hijerarhije, i da je stega ustvari kalup oblika.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great