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Quotes About Revolution

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll
~ Brian Cox
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.
~ David Graeber
Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
~ Unknown
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.
~ Scott D. Cook
It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.
~ Thom Yorke
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.
~ Marianne Williamson
Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea
~ Unknown
In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car
~ John Moody
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air.
~ Erasmus Darwin
If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
~ Charles Kettering
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
~ Victor Hugo
What infuriated many observers was that everything had changed and nothing had changed. That in fact seems to be the nature of English life. It was a revolution which had not changed the nature of governance.
~ Peter Ackroyd
It may be noted, in parenthesis, that in this period the coach was introduced to England
~ Peter Ackroyd
In fact, the poor are generally too busy making ends meet to be the vanguard of any revolution. History shows that terrorism is a largely bourgeois endeavor, from the Russian anarchists of the late nineteenth century to the German Marxists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970s, to the apocalyptic Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo of the 1990s. Islamist terrorists, it turns out, are no different.
~ Peter Bergen
ideology, a kind of conversion experience in which the unsettlement of the war, the experience of revolution, and emotional attachment to the idea of the nation created a generation that incorporated the revolutionary message of the National Socialists.
~ Unknown
Berlin Stays Red
~ Unknown
May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, misery, toil, and moil.
~ Unknown
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo
~ Peter M. Senge
Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up?
~ Peter Orner
In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat. (CM 254)
~ Peter Singer
What's the point of a revolution without general copulation copulation copulation
~ Peter Weiss
These cells of the inner self are darker than the deepest stone dungeon, and as long as they are locked, all your revolution remains but a prison mutiny, to be put down by corrupted fellow prisoners.
~ Peter Weiss
Marat o que aconteceu com nossa Revolução Marat não queremos mais esperar até amanhã Marat continuamos sempre gente pobre e queremos hoje as mudanças prometidas.
~ Peter Weiss