Quotes About Revolution

The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good?

That's sort of what happened with Cassie and me. I guess I was Goya, just doing my thing, and she was the French Revolution.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

A revolutionary is only a terrorist until he's achieved his revolution. After that he's a hero. An outcome makes a morality...

I am an aristocrat, Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. She didn't understand the words, most of them at any rate, but 'created equal' was not lost on her. The white men who wrote it didn't understand it either, if 'all men' did not truly mean all men.

The Revolution had many of these men, proportioned to the epoch. In this old man one was conscious of a man put to the proof. Though so near to his end, he preserved all the gestures of health. In his clear glance, in his firm tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something calculated to disconcert death.

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.

Feminism', we have had to destroy.

She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on

Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.

The men's needs are strong and overwhelming. They need the faggots and their friends in order to know who they are not. But the faggots and their friends will no longer need the men. They can sit and produce high, invisible love energy or they can do anything. But they will not need. And when the faggots and their friends cease being the faggots and their friends, the deathly dance of the men will begin to wane and a new dance will begin to emerge. Then the third revolutions will engulf us all.

And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.

He has done this the way the fabled butterfly does it, as its wing-flapping sets off revolution.

With this entirely factual approach, Pigafetta broke with a tradition that reached back to antiquity.

Spirituality has always been about turning the world on its head.

Man's First Mistake: The Wheel

The National Convention declares that slavery is abolished throughout the territory of the Republic; in consequence, all men, without distinction of color, will enjoy the rights of French citizens."37

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.

The negro population grew by leaps and bounds, until on the eve of the Revolution it amounted to more than half a million. In five states—Maryland, Virginia, the two Carolinas, and Georgia—the slaves nearly equalled or actually exceeded the whites in number. In South Carolina they formed almost two-thirds of the population. Even in the Middle colonies of Delaware and Pennsylvania about one-fifth of the inhabitants were from Africa.