Quotes About Revolution

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th century. Then Russia had something that no other country has had, which is the longest totalitarian experiment in history.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.

It's unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

The wars of kings were over; the wars of peoples had begun.

Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.