Quotes About Revolution

She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.

What a glorious morning for America!

The harbor shall be a teapot tonight!

The human rights revolution of our time is bound up with a global concern for the "wretched of the earth," but not in the egalitarian sense that the socialist and postcolonial promoters of that phrase originally meant.

Their extremism indicates, rather, that in the revolutionary era and especially during Jacobin rule, it became more and more the common sense that some sort of "reasonable" equality in the distribution of the good things in life was both feasible and necessary.18

Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.

The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall.

Your greatest power is your ability to make paradigm shifts."

The more she thought about it, the more confused she became: each of them told the story with complete conviction. In the end, she thought, perhaps they were all right. The stories of what had happened to each of them in those bloody days of the revolution were a web they wove together; the truth scuttled back and forth between the delicate strands of memory, and could not be pinned down.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.