Quotes About Revolution

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was the guy who found the Tubes and signed them to A&M. English punk was a revolution.

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will, however, only be put to the test if and when the time comes for another election, which the opposition may win.

I think Tunisia has a specific place in the Arab world and in Africa because it is a tiny Muslim country, but it's very open minded. It's the first country to start the Arab Spring, for example.

It's interesting to me that the Arab Spring started in Tunisia, and in the marches, people were singing 'Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.'

Saudi Arabia must return to fully supporting the Syrian revolution and to ally with the Turks.

My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.