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Quotes About Revolution

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
~ John Stuart Mill
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
~ Tupac Shakur
Yes! is the thing that blows the whole structure apart.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points out that for explaining the possibility of scientific knowledge about (physical) objects we have to reflect on central cognitive functions (intuition and categories). According to Piaget, however, the reversal of the attentional focus of the mind does not happen just once but several times – namely at every level transition.
~ Unknown
The completion of sensorimotor development leads to a Copernican revolution (Piaget, 1970/1972a, p. 21; see Smith, 1987) in the sense that, for the infant, his own action is no longer the whole of reality and instead now becomes "one object among others in a space containing them all; and actions are related together through being coordinated by a subject who begins to be aware of himself as the source of actions" (Piaget, 1970/1972a, pp.
~ Unknown
Wir sagen natürlich, die Bullen sind Schweine. Wir sagen, der Typ in Uniform ist ein Schwein, kein Mensch. Und so haben wir uns mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen. Das heißt, wir haben nicht mit ihm zu reden, und es ist falsch, überhaupt mit diesen Leuten zu reden. Und natürlich kann geschossen werden.
~ Unknown
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.
~ Unknown
Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.
~ Unknown
Consciousness precedes Being, and not the other way around, as Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better.
~ Vaclav Havel
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
~ Vaclav Havel
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
~ Unknown
Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine.
~ Unknown
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
~ Vaclav Havel
I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
~ Valentino Garavani
Erkekleri bertaraf edin, kad?nlar ÅŸekle girecektir. Kad?nlar düzeltilebilir; erkeklerse düzeltilemez, ancak davran??lar? düzeltilebilir. SCUM k?çlar?ndan dürtünce hale yola girerler.
~ Valerie Solanas
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
~ Valerie Solanas
If SCUM ever marches, it will be over the President's stupid, sickening face; if SCUM ever strikes, it will be in the dark with a six-inch blade.
~ Valerie Solanas
In all liberation struggles it is the common people who bathe in the fire of oppression.
~ Unknown
A thousand million times, castle technologies had fallen to things like cannon; why should her world be different?
~ Vernor Vinge
DID WE WIN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
~ Vicki Robin
Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
~ Victor Hugo
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
~ Victor Hugo