Quotes About Revolution

For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow or even the alteration of the existing social order but the preservation of political liberty threatened by the apparent corruption of the constitution, and the establishment in principle of the existing conditions of liberty.

Bernard Bailyn

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Als ob Gewalt jemals etwas anderes ausgerichtet hätte als Zerstörung. Ihr glaubt, wenn ihr euch auf die Hinterbeine stellt, dann gibt es das Paradies auf Erden. Aber ich sage euch: So macht man kein Paradies, so macht man das Chaos.

It's sensible, anyone can understand it. It's easy. You're not an exploiter, so you can grasp it. It's a good thing for you, find out more about it. The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid. It is against squalor and against stupidity. the exploiters call it a crime But we know: It is the end of crime. It is not madness, but The end of madness. It is not the riddle But the solution. It is the simple thing So hard to achieve. -"Praise of Communism

E voi, imparate che occorre vedere e non guardare in aria; occorre agire e non parlare. Questo mostro stava, una volta, per governare il mondo! Il popolo lo spensero, ma ora non cantiamo vittoria troppo presto: il grembo da cui nacque è ancora fecondo.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Some know full well what Bernard Shaw had in mind when he wrote that "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Rather

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

We have inherited the term "sexual revolution" from those who first coined it in the 1960s, and in adopting their phrase we have perpetuated some of the confusions of that era. We continue to hear echoes of danger in the word "revolution." We continue to conflate very different impulses and outcomes. This received language to revolution has made it much more difficult for us to understand and discuss the roles and meanings of sex in contemporary America.

The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.

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all females, regardless of age, race, or circumstances, should always be plotting rebellion to better the state of women.

The March. It's from Mr. Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture series. Painted in 1995.

My father had an expression he repeated a thousand times growing up: Every man and woman is entitled to be treated with dignity. Everyone. That's what your new revolution was about: dignity.

Folks, talk is cheap. False promises are deceptive and talk and revolution isn't changing anyone's life.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

People everywhere love Windows.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

Freebird, the mantra of the moron.