Quotes About Revolution

The revolution in Manila was being led by young intellectuals, sons of merchants and professionals who had been educated in Europe and who had planned their revolt using the theories of the French Revolution. Isio had long, scraggly hair, bare feet, and eyes that betrayed the many years of sadness and labor his people had endured. With a look of pity and incredulity, Salas finally asked, "How is it possible that you survived?

Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Just as personal digital technologies have caused economic, social and scientific revolutions unimagined when we had our first few computers, we must expect and prepare for similar changes as we move forward from our first few genomes. —George Church1

There won't be any revolution in America…The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Indeed, not just the problems but the loud cry "Reform!" had been heard here and there for centuries before Luther.

He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that had held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world. Included in the old way of seeing things was the idea that the evil of slavery was good.

Once this idea was loosed upon the world, the world changed.

Luther was the unwitting harbinger of a new world in which the well-established boundaries of what was acceptable were exploded, never to be restored. Suddenly the individual had not only the freedom and possibility of thinking for himself but the weighty responsibility before God of doing so.

There is a reason all past management revolutions have been led by engineers: management is human systems engineering.

established companies need to figure out how to accomplish what Scott Cook did in 1983, but on an industrial scale and with an established cohort of managers steeped in traditional management culture.

Imaging via a pocket ultrasound device decidedly transcends the antique stethoscope from 1816, regarded as the icon of medicine.

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Warum muß es immer so gemacht werden, wie es früher gemacht wurde? Wenn das konsequent geschähen wäre, säßen wir heute noch auf den Bäumen!

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

Soviet intelligence was playing a long game, laying down seed corn that could be harvested many years hence or left dormant forever. It was a simple, brilliant, durable strategy of the sort that only a state committed to permanent world revolution could have initiated. It would prove staggeringly successful.

As so often in the history of communism, the bloodshed came not from external forces but through vicious infighting.

Sometimes it is time to think the unthinkable,

The French Revolution, then, led not only to the rise of the nation-state and nationalism more broadly, it also opened the door to total war—the end of the distinction between civilian and military, and the willingness to weaponize an entire population toward the ends of governments.

The Weathermen eventually became the Weathermen Underground, bombing police stations, the Pentagon, the homes of private citizens—all while decrying America. "We're against everything that's 'good and decent' in honky America," said Jacobs. "We will burn and loot and destroy.