Quotes About Revolution

Reading is an act of resistance. Against what? Against all constraints.

La pasarela de personajes que desfilaron durante estos agitados años es fascinante: Voltaire, el escritor que revolucionó las mentes; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, el suizo que habló de un nuevo pacto social; Montesquieu, el barón que defendía la separación de los poderes y la de los negros109; Georges-Jacques

The first attempted coup in the history of the United States of America had failed.

Count among Washington's gifts to his future nation his revelation that cows, rather than horses or sheep, provide the most potent dung.

In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.

Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty.

we're only at the beginning of the sea change that the Audience Revolution is bringing to our economy.

Earth had done just that over the last few hundred years.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Ellos quieren la revolución… y nosotros les daremos las reformas… tantas reformas… los ahogaremos en las reformas. ¡Oh mejor aun, los ahogaremos en las promesas de las reformas, porque ni siquiera esas les daremos!

Whether it is North Korea, Sierra Leone, or Zimbabwe, well show that poor countries are poor for the same reason that Egypt is poor. Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government was accountable and responsive to citizens, and where the great mass of people could take advantage of economic opportunities.

The essence of the iron law of oligarchy, this particular facet of the vicious circle, is that new leaders overthrowing old ones with promises of radical change bring nothing but more of the same.

A fourth factor is a larger sea change in the way we view history.With

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

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Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

Understanding the Agricultural Revolution is a first step toward understanding the Information Revolution. The introduction of tilling and harvesting provides a paradigm example of how an apparently simple shift in the character of work can radically alter the organization of society.

new revolution of power which is liberating individuals at the expense of the twentieth-century nation-state.

The Information Revolution will destroy the monopoly of power of the nation-state as surely as the Gunpowder Revolution destroyed the Church's monopoly.