Quotes About Revolution

It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

Three technological revolutions dawned in 1953: thermonuclear weapons, stored-program computers, and the elucidation of how life stores its own instructions as strings of DNA.

The Mediterranean was, before the northern European industrial revolution, one of the wealthiest regions in the world. Divisions between Muslim North Africa and Christian southern Europe were contained, if not always peacefully. The

The greatest impact of the Darwinian revolution...was that it completed the liberation from superstition and fear that began in the physical sciences a few centuries before. Man, too, is a natural phenomenon. [in "The evolutionary concept of man", 1972, p. 35.]

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass

Fanny zag ik niet meer. We waren overeengekomen dat ze pas bij me zou komen op de dag voor de aanslag, voor de laatste instructies, want zij moest de bommen klaarmaken en ze aan me geven. De kameraad die ik nog één keer ontmoette, gaf me het precieze tijdstip op: kwart voor twaalf 's avonds. Het was ons onmogelijk de schouwburg binnen te komen, want daar mocht je alleen in op uitnodiging; we moesten dus wachten onder de zuilengalerij.

Please let us get back to a normal way of life, whatever it might be; these wars, revolutions, great historical upheavals might be exciting to men, but to women Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Women felt nothing but boredom. She was positive that every woman would agree with her: they were tired of crying, bored to death by all these noble words and noble feelings!

She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.

The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it once it has begun are the causes of a great deal of the human misery with which history is permeated.

When you think of human history, you think of the occasional human being whose minority view may be condemned by society but who wins out in the end and changes the world. What chance is there on Gaia for the great rebels of history?

un verdadero robot fue imposible antes de la invención de la computadora en los años cuarenta, y no fue práctico (en el sentido de ser lo suficientemente compacto y lo bastante económico para aplicarlo al uso cotidiano) hasta la invención del microchip en los años setenta.

El siglo XVIII fue la edad de oro de los «autómatas».

They are all insane: the Communists, the Fascists, the preachers of democracy, the writers, the painters, the clergy, the atheists. Soon technology, too, will disintegrate. Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

One common aim united Alexander of Macedonia and Hamilcar, Genghis Khan and Charlemagne, Chmielnitzki and Napoleon, Robespierre and Lenin.

The deep Chile of the fascists had always been there, beneath the surface, just waiting to emerge. It was the triumph of the arrogant Right, the defeat of the people who believed in that utopian revolution.

That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.

at least as old as synthetic penicillin—you

Fascists had always been there, beneath the surface, just waiting to emerge. It was the triumph of the arrogant Right, the defeat of the people who believed in that utopian revolution.

Entonces supe que el coronel... y otros como él tienen sus días contados, porque no han podido destruir el espíritu de esas mujeres.

It was an election year and there was reason for concern over the turn of events. The country was waking up. The wave of discontent that was stirring the people was beginning to strike at the heart of that oligarchic society.

Estaba interesado en leer a Marx, un judío que provocaba revoluciones en todo el mundo.

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