Quotes About Revolution

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

Star Wars changed everything in the industry, from pace and storytelling, to visual effects and sound.

What time is it in New York? He shook his head. An hour later than it is here. The earth simply has to revolve, Eve, however annoying it is for you. It can revolve all it wants. I just don't see why people can't settle on the same time.

But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures ...

De?i?im toplumun s?hhatidir.

All you San Franciscos will have to fall eventually and burn again.

We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power.

It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.

The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.

Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably.

I compare the Twist to the electric light, The Twist is me, and I'm it. I'm the electric light.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.