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Quotes About Revolution

The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution. Christianity, by its very nature, demands such a revolution. If Christians would all live up to what they profess to believe, the revolution would happen.
~ Thomas Merton
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
~ Thomas Paine
It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Huz. Didn't we take the King's money, as here we're taking it again? whilst Slaves waited upon us, and we neither one objected, as little as we have here, in certain houses south of the Line,— Where does it end? No matter where in it we go, shall we find all the World Tyrants and Slaves? America was the one place we should not have found them.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The ideal of freedom behind the American Revolution had its effect in freeing thousands of people from slavery in the newly formed United States, something that was happening nowhere else in the world at that time. To call slavery "America's original sin" is to turn reality upside down.
~ Thomas Sowell
I'm a child of the '60s. I went to medical school as a vehicle for social change.
~ KATHRYN ANASTOS
The time has come for the greatest revolution of all times.
~ Kedar Joshi
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
~ Keith Richards
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
~ Kelly Lynch
A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.
~ Ken Follett
the only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.
~ Ken MacLeod
Many schools are organized as they are because they always have been, not because they must be.
~ Ken Robinson
Because when enough people move, that is a movement. And if the movement has enough energy, that is a revolution. And in education, that's exactly what we need.
~ Ken Robinson
The revolution I'm advocating is based on different principles from those of the standards movement. It is based on a belief in the value of the individual, the right to self-determination, our potential to evolve and live a fulfilled life, and the importance of civic responsibility and respect for others.
~ Ken Robinson
The impossible yesterday is routine today. Wait until tomorrow.
~ Ken Robinson
Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.
~ Ken Robinson
Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler did not solve an old problem, they asked a new question, and in doing so they changed the whole basis on which the old questions had been framed.
~ Ken Robinson
Ultimately, the Rothschilds united to form a sturdy, efficient moneychain across Europe that financed its industrial revolution, creating a common money market for the first time.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand ON than what they have so bloody well stood FOR up to now.
~ Kenneth Patchen
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Freedom and Whisky gang thegither!
~ burns robert
Our government has found that the most effective way to control a person is not by the ballot or the bullet, but rather by the 'bucket'. Today, in a country that fought a revolution to rid itself of a repressive government and excessive taxes, government takes 40 percent of everything we earn in the form of taxes.
~ Byron C. Radaker
They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore: Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls-- But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom.
~ byron lord ii
Being a vanguardist has always meant, and will always mean, to not accept that the good is good and the bad is bad, and invent a new definition of what's good and bad.
~ César Aira