Quotes About Revolution

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

The very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.

One of the funny things about it, in retrospect, was its slowness, the lack of any dramatic Moment When It Had Happened. It was a little bit like the world's adoption of the Internet, which had started with a few nerds and within decades become so ubiquitous that no person under thirty could really grasp what life had been like before you could Google everything.

No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, it is inexorable, it moves all things at once, and men of discrimination may understand it, predict it, benefit from it.

The world has actually been wired together by digital communications systems for a century and a half. Nothing that has happened during that time compares in its impact to the first exchange of messages between Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. That was so impressive that a mob of celebrants poured into the streets of New York and set fire to City Hall.

Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.

Indeed. It led to a renaissance," Root says, "like in the seventeenth century, when the Puritans tore everything to rubble and then slowly built it back up from scratch.