Quotes About Revolution

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you've paid off your house, we'll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either!

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

Nothing turned the NXT Universe upside down like The Undisputed Era's debut.

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

My sole agenda is to constantly break stereotypes.

The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.