Quotes About Revolution

His stance was denounced as un-Marxist—indeed, as Blanquist, after the Frenchman Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805–81), who had dismissed the efficacy of popular movements in favor of revolution by a small group via a temporary dictatorship using force.

Lenin suggested that all peasants be compelled to deliver grain by name, and that those who failed to do so "be shot on the spot.

The fundamental fact about him was that he viewed the world through Marxism.

From the point of view of the benefits to the revolution, [we decided] to allow voting only by those who are the genuine party guard.

But you can't change the fruit without changing the root.

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.

For Ptolemy, the great Egyptian astronomer, the earth was the center of the universe. But Copernicus created a paradigm shift, and a great deal of resistance and persecution as well, by placing the sun at the center.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

It was not until we changed those basic paradigms, until we saw things differently, that we were able to create quantum change in ourselves and in the situation.

My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

I am the moment in which explodes the Twentieth Century's great menage à trois between chaos and faith and memory.

It was Jefferson who warned that "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." There

This new, reactionary music was called Punk. It tossed the dominant Rock culture into the garbage can. The only rule was to break the rules.

Thanks to the printing press, the Continent was suddenly populated by people who were experts at manipulating light through slightly convex pieces of glass. These were the hackers of the first optical revolution.

It is hard for those of us who have lived in the postindustrial world our entire lives to understand just how much a shock the sound of industrialization was to human ears a century or two ago.

PRINTING PRESS (1440)

PORTABLE WATCHES (1500)

EARTH ROTATES AROUND SUN (1514)

STEAM TURBINE (1551)

STOCKING FRAME (1589)

TELESCOPE (1600--1610)

ELLIPTICAL ORBITS (1605--1609)