Quotes About Revolution

Something else has happened with computers.

Moscow – March 1956

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

The sins we confess are not just drinking too much beer but also getting drunk on the cocktails of culture. We are not just laying our lives at the altar with nothing to pick up but we are also picking up an irresistible revolution that the world is waiting for.

This is prophetic work, and Christians are called to be the prophets of a new and better world, not just the chaplains of empire and defenders of the status quo.

Many of us have learned history by studying wars and violence; we organize it by the reigns of kings and presidents. But in Jesus, we reorder history. We date it from his visit to earth and examine it through a new lens — identifying with the tortured, the displaced, the refugee, and remembering the nonviolent revolutions on the margins of empires.

Morse's invention dramatically altered the way we relate to information by breaking, for the first time,, the historic connection between communication and transportation.

He thought she was someone who could break the pattern of history. And he was offering to break it with her.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

Aunque sólo sea por razones de estructura dramática, la historia de la revolución rusa necesita las grandes purgas del mismo modo que la historia de la revolución francesa necesita el terror jacobino.

Fourteenth of July.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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

We have had too much of the Clintons, too much of the establishment, too much of Bushes. We have had too much of the old names and the old theories. It's time for a new theory.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.