Quotes About Revolution

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.

OnCuba, in its digital platform, is very aggressive against the revolution. We are going to close it.

The American people are tired of the D.C. way.

The late 1960s was another time and another world.

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

My father believed in armed struggle.

The hat, above all, struck me; it is a sort of truncated column, and does not adapt itself in the least to the shape of the head; but I am told it is easier to bring about a revolution than to invent a graceful hat.

The bourgeois is born so; words are coins which he takes and passes without question. For a word, he will excite himself or calm down, insult or applaud. With a word, he can be brought to make a revolution and overturn a government of his own choice.

In revolutions, as in storms at sea, solid worth goes to the bottom, and the waves bring lightweight stuff to the surface.

France is the only country where some small phrase could bring about a great revolution.

Mme. d'Aiglemont had lost her mother in her early childhood; and as a natural consequence in her bringing-up, she had felt the influence of the relaxed notions which loosened the hold of religion upon France during the Revolution. Piety is a womanly virtue which women alone can really instil; and the Marquise, a child of the eighteenth century, had adopted her father's creed of philosophism, and practised no religious observances.

We live in an age, madame, when nothing is sure," he said. "Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future. You know my attachment to the cause of legitimacy. Suppose some catastrophe; would you not be glad to have a friend in the conquering party?" "Undoubtedly," she said, smiling.

Alexander Bird's Thomas Kuhn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000

A good short history of the development of the drift hypothesis and the final emergence of plate tectonics is given in A. Hallam, A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)

Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979

Huey coined the term "revolutionary suicide" to describe this phenomenon.

There is an old African saying, "I am we." If you met an African in ancient times and asked him who he was, he would reply, "I am we." This is revolutionary suicide: I, we, all of us are the one and the multitude.

It is not always the going from bad to worse that causes a revolution. It happens more often that a people who have borne without complaint, and apparently without feeling, most oppressive laws, throw them off violently as soon as their weight lightens. The system that a revolution destroys is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience teaches that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is usually that in which it begins to reform.

The importance of capital in the early Industrial Revolution was so great and so obvious everywhere that it gave rise to several new social and economic theories, of which the most famous is Marxism. It also gave rise to the term 'capitalism', and this was by no means so acceptable a development. As

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

That's certainly the roots of heavy metal. That whole sense of revolution and wanting to be powerful is definetly a puberty thing. Fans don't have to be offended by that. Everybody goes through it. That's why heavy metal is so powerful.