Quotes About Revolution

Every revolutionary poet or lyricist has been criticised for something. If you come up with something new, there will always be people who will object to it.

I want to bring something new to boxing.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.

Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.

Sony's Walkman far predated the iPod. Nokia ruled smartphones before Apple.

Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

There are some who expect every game to make a dramatic change the way that 'Resident Evil 4' did over its predecessors. And for that series I think the change was fantastic and completely necessary. I honestly think it should have happened much sooner than it did. But that kind of change is not necessary for every game.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

If I had been the drummer for the Grassroots, it probably wouldn't have cut me to the core when I heard John Lennon's 'Revolution' selling tennis shoes... and Nikes, to boot! That song was the soundtrack to part of my youth, when the streets were filled with passionate citizens expressing their First Amendment right to free speech.

The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the intransigence of the Afrikaner Nationalist Government, obsessed with improbable ideas of revolution.

In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.

The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

I'm very proud of Soviet aesthetics.

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

It may interest you to know that Marconi's "friends" had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better.

As Victor Hugo said, "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.