Quotes About Revolution

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

Men must go out of their minds.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.