Quotes About Revolution

Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.

I do think that the days of gathering around a television set that functions merely as a television set, to receive a live broadcast of some networked programming, those days are probably numbered.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

Groups like Black Lives Matter, blessed by the progressive Left and most recently our own President Obama, need to be exposed and condemned for their true aims: revolution.

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

The Founders were anything but demigods to themselves and their contemporaries, who recognized full well that the experiment in self-government had only begun.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways - the political revolution.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.