Quotes About Revolution

Be realistic and demand the impossible

If our kitchens are outside of capital, our struggle to destroy them will never succeed in causing capital to fall. —Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle

This book is an attempt to begin that process by highlighting the critical contribution of SRT to an understanding of capitalist social relations.

L'unica rivoluzione che serve è quella dentro di te. Le altre si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete.

FOLCO: Non servono le rivoluzioni? TIZIANO: E da qui il mio passo verso l'unica rivoluzione che serve, quella dentro di te. Le altre le vedi. Le altre si ripetono, si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete, si ripete, si ripete.

l'unica rivoluzione che serve, quella dentro di te. Le altre le vedi. Le altre si ripetono, si ripetono in maniera costante, perché al fondo c'è la natura dell'uomo. E se l'uomo non cambia, se l'uomo non fa questo salto di qualità, se l'uomo non rinuncia alla violenza, al dominio della materia, al profitto, all'interesse, tutto si ripete, si ripete, si ripete.

An actual turn to universality requires a break from conservatism and even from liberalism.

Change Dynasty

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

We must wait for the official history of the Chinese Revolution to record in greater detail the invaluable work of our Japanese friends.

No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. ? Pablo Picasso