Quotes About Revolution

I had never believed either in God, or in the Devil, or in a King, or in the Pope (as for the Revolution, so far I had no knowledge of it), but I had always been taught to recognize Grace and Beauty, and they alone, in my opinion, justified the curtseys, the fervor in our souls, the fullness of our hearts. — Max-Ulrich

Urban revolution" identifies a long historical shift, from an agricultural to an industrial to an urban world, according to Lefebvre's account, but it also captures a shift in the internal territorial form of the city, from the originary political city through the mercantile, then industrial, city to the present "critical phase," the harbinger of a certain globalization of the urban.

The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.

The fluctuations in tobacco caused the first conflict with England, brought on by the violence of the clergy, and paved the way for resistance.

Sources of interest and excitement were not lacking during the season. If politics ran high, as in the years when revolution was preparing, society could gather at the capitol and listen to the classic oratory of Richard Henry Lee, or the fervid speeches of Patrick Henry, dressed in his suit of peach-blossom velvet, and defying King George, to the great alarm of the conservative land-owning gentry.

It may be possible to make the political history of every colony in turn picturesque and exciting;

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.

Asia's International Order and China Of all conceptions of world order in Asia, China operated the longest lasting, the most clearly defined, and the one furthest from Westphalian ideas. China has also taken the most complex journey, from ancient civilization through classical empire, to Communist revolution, to modern great-power status—a course which will have a profound impact on mankind.

E veio demonstrar como mudanças internas podem abalar o equilíbrio internacional mais profundamente do que uma agressão externa – uma lição que seria aplicada pelas revoluções do século XX, muitas das quais beberam explicitamente dos conceitos originalmente avançados pela Revolução Francesa.

continuous revolution had three sources: ideology, tradition, and Chinese nationalism.

China does not want revolution; it does not want war or revenge; it simply wants the Chinese people to "bid farewell to poverty and enjoy a better life" and for China to become—in contrast to the taunting rejectionism of Mao—"the most responsible, the most civilized, and the most law abiding and orderly member of the international community."32

One if by land, and two if by sea;And I on the opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village and farm.

If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.

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

How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself

The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind.

Disruptive movement must come from within.

every time there have been conquests there have been conquerors; every time there has been a revolution in any state there have been great men," says history. And, indeed, human reason replies: every time conquerors appear there have been wars, but this does not prove that the conquerors caused the wars and that it is possible to find the laws of a war in the personal activity of a single man.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Liberty and equality," said the vicomte contemptuously, as if at last deciding seriously to prove to this youth how foolish his words were, "high-sounding words which have long been discredited. Who does not love liberty and equality? Even our Saviour preached liberty and equality. Have people since the Revolution become happier? On the contrary. We wanted liberty, but Buonaparte has destroyed it.