Quotes About Revolution

It is precisely the envelopment of sex (and all other natural functions) with an aura of deeper meaning that makes man human and distinguishes him from the rest of animate nature. To remove that meaning, to reduce sex to biology, as all the sexual revolutionaries did in practice, is to return man to a level of primitive behavior of which we have no record in human history. All animals have sex, but only man makes love.

Under communism all minorities dance.

This is the first time in history there has been mass denial that sexual relations are a proper subject of moral reflection or need to be governed by moral restrictions. The result of this denial, not surprisingly, has been soaring divorce rates and mass illegitimacy, among other phenomena. The sexual revolution has been above all a change in moral sensibility, in the direction of a thorough coarsening of feeling, thought, and behavior.

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.

The real meaning of revolution is not a change in management … but a change in man.

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

Hence, if the movement of the heavens lasted always, time would not be of its measure as regards the whole of its duration, since the infinite is not measurable; but it would be the measure of that part of its revolution which has beginning and end in time.

The sea-green Incorruptible [Robespierre].

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

A whiff of grapeshot.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Once, even the simple metal needle challenged the conventional thinking of a time.

Netflix completely shook up the world.

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

For every Netflix, there's a Blockbuster. Every Facebook, a MySpace.

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was saying, 'Network TV is dead.'

AOL invented social networking.

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

Look at electricity in human history - it took a few decades for electricity to really revolutionize the American economy. And the Internet will be the same. At some point in the future, we will arrive at a new era of low-hanging fruit.

The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.