Quotes About Revolution

Jamie aveva orrore di qualsiasi forma di estremismo e sosteneva che i guerriglieri si giustificano solo durante la tirannia, quando non c'è altra scelta che battersi con le armi, ma che sono un'aberrazione in un paese dove i cambiamenti si possono ottenere con votazioni popolari.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

La idea de una revolución pacífica en democracia y con plena libertad era un contrasentido.

We didn't experience anything like the Cuban or Russian revolutions here, we merely had a few years of a progressive government, like many that exist today in Europe. We were in the wrong hemisphere and ahead of our time, which is why we paid so dearly for it.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.