Quotes About Revolution

But it (serial television) doesn't remain in the mind. It doesn't produce positive effects in political terms, in ideological terms. My impression is that this extraordinary digital revolution is producing also an extraordinary confusion.

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

Es una lástima que habiendo podido ser el Felipe González del Perú te empeñes en ser nuestro Salvador Allende, o, peor aún, nuestro Fidel Castro. ¿No va el mundo por otros rumbos?». Naturalmente

Revolución de Octubre en la Guatemala de 1944, cuando la United Fruit comenzó a sentirse en peligro. Las ideas y relaciones de Bernays serían utilísimas para derrocar al supuesto «gobierno comunista» guatemalteco y reemplazarlo por uno más democrático, es decir, más dócil a sus intereses.

El socialismo democrático había ido aletargando al país de la Revolución industrial, que languidecía ahora en una monótona mediocridad

cover the twenty-five in sacks soaked in gasoline. Then they set fire to them. Shrieking, transformed into human torches, some managed to put out the flames by rolling on the ground but were left with terrible burns. Those who threw themselves into the river like flaming meteors drowned. Macedo, Loaysa, and Velarde finished off the wounded with their revolvers.

No era más correcto tratar de extender y de radicalizar el movimiento?

the Boston Tea Party was the work of 1777-era frat boys)

The revolution is like a bicycle. When the wheels don't turn, it falls.

For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it.

All big changes of the world come from words

El motivo de mi vergüenza y de la revolución es el mismo la diferencia de clase social

A razão da minha vergonha e da revolução é a mesma: a diferença entre as classes sociais.

J'ai enfin compris pourquoi j'avais honte de m'asseoir dans la Cadillac de mon père! La raison de ma honte et de la révolution est la même: la différence de classe sociale. Mais j'y pense...on a une bonne à la maison!!

Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming.

While in the United States and Europe revolution was an excuse to sell pop music, stage protests, and hold festivals, it was being played for keeps in Asia. Young people were not just challenging their elders but pushing them aside, expelling, imprisoning, and in many cases executing them, all the while extolling the young as the righteous vanguard, their very youth a badge of purity. They were, by definition, forward-thinking. And in Hue they were armed.

was a heady time to be young in Iran, on the front lines of change. They felt as though they were shaping not only their own futures but the future of their country and the world.

the truth of Ho's teachings, that the party and the army were not enough. Real victory could come only from the people.

Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, the Comte de Mirabeau, the man who had defied Louis XVI by opening the National Assembly, said, "In the final analysis, the people will judge the revolution by this fact alone—does it take more or less money? Are they better off? Do they have more work? And is that work better paid?

ONCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, "We Chinese invented many things!

Both the steamboat service to Albany and the Erie Canal were destined to be swiftly fleeting marvels, eclipsed by the next idea. Only seven years after the Seneca Chief brought whitefish to New York Harbor, the city's railroad age had begun. The

One result of the tea boycott was that Americans very quickly became coffee drinkers.