Quotes About Revolution

The victory of conservatism and the profound transformation brought about over the course of the next three decades was thus far from inevitable: it took an intellectual revolution.

Among the speakers at the graveside was Viktor Orbán, the young leader of the Young Democrats, who could not help noting that some of the Communists present at Nagy's reburial were the same who, just a few years before, had so strenuously falsified the very revolution whose praises they were now singing.

This familiarity of revolutionary violence in the French imaginaire, together with sepia-tinted memories of the old Franco-Russian alliance, pre-disposed intellectuals in France to greet Communist apologetics for Soviet brutality with a distinctly sympathetic ear.

by 1945 few people believed any longer in the magic of the market. This was an intellectual revolution.

only one party that could represent and advance the interests of that class: the Communists; and only one correct outcome to the workers' struggle under Communist direction: the Revolution, as patented in Russia fifty years before.

Communism was now forever to be associated with oppression, not revolution. For forty years the Western Left had looked to Russia, forgiving and even admiring Bolshevik violence as the price of revolutionary self-confidence and the march of History. Moscow was the flattering mirror of their political illusions. In November 1956, the mirror shattered.

All this display, while the working classes were pinched beyond bearing; it was not wise, or tasteful: it smacked of ostentatious wealth. The Europe from which Phryne had lately come was impoverished, even the nobility; and was keeping its head down, still shocked by the Russian revolution. It had become fashionable to make no display; understatement had become most stylish.

In 1934, the Chrysler/DeSoto Airflows were a revolution in design, sleeker, lower, and closer to the ground than anything then on the road, with a full steel body. They nearly wrecked the company, thanks in part to a number of glitches that had escaped notice, such as engines occasionally breaking loose from their mountings when the car reached eighty miles an hour.

The disruptive potential of quantum technology will make the change of the Internet era look like a small bump in the road!

The application of Blockchain technology is rapidly becoming a core component of our infrastructure!

Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can't do at all. Our most important thinking machines will not be machines that can think what we think faster, better, but those that think what we can't think.

Software eats everything.

As Marshall McLuhan observed, the first version of a new medium imitates the medium it replaces. The first commercial computers employed the metaphor of the office. Our screens had a "desktop" and "folders" and "files." They were hierarchically ordered, like much of the industrial age that the computer was overthrowing.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.

The greatest social consequence of the Darwinian revolution was the grudging acceptance by humans that humans were random descendants of monkeys, neither perfect nor engineered. The greatest social consequence of neo-biological civilization will be the grudging acceptance by humans that humans are the random ancestors of machines, and that as machines we can be engineered ourselves.

The more unlikely the field, the more powerful adding AI will be.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years. You

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The electronic revolution is like the social event of the season. Everybody has received an invitation. Those who choose not to attend will be left out in the cold listening to everyone else talk about what a marvelous time they had.

In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Even in the difficult circumstances when we were healing the war wounds and promoting the socialist revolution and construction, we introduced universal free compulsory education step by step, combined school education with social education and developed the study-while-you-work system so that all the younger generation and working people could receive education at state expense.