Quotes About Revolution

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

La consigna es como sigue: o haces tu revolución afectiva o revientas.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.

The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. Burke, speech in the House of Commons (1790)

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

Ideas are facts too; the belief, whether true or false, that the British were greasing cartridges with animal fat started a revolution in India. For we are what we imagine, as much as what we do.

Blood is what moves people. Blood is the force of the revolution.

Karl Marx himself spoke to her and said, "Sheilah, arise, you have nothing to lose but your mediocrity.

Yo pini Ayisyen paske Ayisyen te premye nasyon nwa ki te ede e ki te anseye anpil peyi kijan pou yo jwenn libète yo. Atravè ane yo, yo pini Ayiti pou liberasyon anpil esklav atravè mond lan. Malerezman, se pou sa yo pa vle Ayiti pwospere.

Yo pini Ayiti paske Ayiti se premye nasyon nwa ki te ede epi montre anpil peyi kijan pou yo jwenn libète yo. Pandan ane yo, yo pini Ayiti pou liberasyon anpil esklav atravè lemond.

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

Creativity is making something different using the same thing."

Senin kitlelerinle konu?uyorum ben, küçük devrimci; onlara küçük ya?amlar?n?n sefaletini gösteriyorum. Büyük bir heves ve umutla dinliyorlar beni. Senin örgütlerinde topla??yorlar, çünkü orada beni bulmay? umuyor onlar. Ama sen ne yap?yorsun? "Cinsellik bir küçük-burjuva uydurmacas?d?r," diyorsun. "Önemli olan ekonomik etkenlerdir.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

But the agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions changed all that, and the resulting explosion of personal liberty has created a bewildering array of options, alternatives, choices, and decisions that our ancestors never faced. For the very first time, our happiness is in our hands.

O importante não é saber como aconteceu, mas, sim, sentir que o que aconteceu foi um evento importante. Esse evento se chama consciência. Tomar consciência foi a grande revolução que Rairu proporcionou às pessoas que estavam no mundo de baixo. Elas não sabiam que havia outra maneira de viver. Quando desejaram partir em busca desse novo mundo, puseram-se a caminho, e muitos conseguiram chegar até em cima, porém, outros não quiseram...

It was as if single nights had the duration of centuries, so within that time the most profound alterations in the whole of mankind, in the earth itself and the whole solar system could very well have taken place.