Quotes About Revolution

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels - than turning back the gender revolution.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.

The future of 3D will be defined by TV.

The TV world is not what it used to be. I mean, the quality has become something quite exceptional.

'The East' could easily be a TV show.

Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.