Quotes About Revolution

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

'Newton' has given a lot to our cinema.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot come the musical revolution (Michael Bolton, U2, Bryan Adams, and, surprise surprise, Genesis were tucked in behind them. Berry wanted to shoot The Beatles, but I pointed out that someone had already done it.

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.

The problem, then, with the idea of Jesus as a nationalistic, Jewish revolutionary is that it's way too small a picture: his revolution was far greater than that, and the rebellion he began was aimed at a far, far greater power.

If we confine ourselves to waiting, we will not get the 'great day' at all, but rather the tanks in the small hours of the morning.

My own outlook and my values had been formed long ago. I did not believe in dividing people into rigid classes, and I did not believe in class struggle as a means to promote progress. I believed that to rebuild after so many years of war, China needed a peaceful enviroment and the unity of all sections of society, not perpetual revolution.

She took me to a small office and told me that she had been trying to arrange for me to be examined by a gynecologist in a city hospital. But at that time the hospitals in Shanghai, controlled by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries, were refusing to give medical treatment to "class enemies.

It will only be necessary to carry an inexpensive instrument not bigger than a watch, which will enable its bearer to hear anywhere on sea or land for distances of thousands of miles. One may listen or transmit speech or song to the uttermost parts of the world. In the same way, any kind of picture, drawing, or print can be transferred from one place to another. It will be possible to operate millions of such instruments from a single station.

But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

a time when anarchists were truly fearsome —less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.

The suppression of the State cannot be a languid affair; it must be the task of the Revolution to finish with the State.

So you have to  ask, "Is it better to help the worse candidate to be elected?" You can make a case for doing that. In fact, there was an old Communist Party principle back in the  early 1930s: "the worse, the better." If you get the worse candidate in, it's going to be better, because then there will be more support for a revolution.

The "political revolution" that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower. What that means is the spectrum has shifted so far to the right that what the population wants, and what was once mainstream, now looks radical and extremist.

I do not pretend to know the answer to this question. But it seems clear that unless there is, in some form, a positive answer, the chances for a truly democratic revolution that will achieve the humanistic ideals of the left are not great.

Kant's insistence, in his defense of the French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved.

Un estudio concluye que «Estados Unidos tenía más muertes al final del siglo XIX debido a la violencia laboral, en términos absolutos y como proporción de la población total, que cualquier otro país salvo la Rusia zarista».3 El término «violencia laboral» es una forma educada de referirse a la violencia del Estado y de la seguridad privada contra los obreros. Eso continuó hasta finales de la década de 1930;