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Quotes About Revolution

But in 1922 it was still a new thing to be a machine.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
It was convenient to call them snipers, because if they weren't snipers, then what were they? The governor didn't say it; the newspapers didn't say it; the history books still do not say it, but I, who watched the entire thing on my bike, saw it clearly: in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was nothing less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The entire world has changed. So, there we go. That's all.
~ Jessica Park
War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.
~ Jonathan Glazer
Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
~ Kevin Kelly
Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.
~ Philip Pullman
It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
~ Stephen Leacock
I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.
~ Stewart D. Friedman
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
~ Tom Shadyac
We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.
~ William J. Clinton
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
~ Ziggy Marley
Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
~ Richie Norton
The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.
~ Isaac Herzog
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.
~ Madeleine Albright
I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.
~ Nick Harkaway
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
~ C. L. R. James
It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance.
~ Elian Gonzalez
I am still not at all in favour of offering any defence. Even if the court had accepted that petition submitted by some of my co-accused regarding defence, etc., I would not have defended myself.
~ Bhagat Singh
There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.
~ Rachel Kushner
Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.
~ Marc Randolph
When punk started, it wasn't subtle.
~ Toyah Willcox