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Quotes About Revolution

It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
~ Octavio Paz
Death to the pigs is my basic statement.
~ Boots Riley
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
~ Hugo Chavez
Las décadas transcurridas desde los años sesenta han llevado a cabo una notable tarea en el acabado de la revolución sexual.
~ Philip Roth
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
~ Philip Yancey
No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.
~ Philip Yancey
To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
~ Philippa Gregory
I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.
~ Philippa Gregory
He smiled at me, his wolfish smile. 'We are making a new order,' he said, 'a new world. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.' 'If I refuse?' I asked, my voice very thing. He gave me his most cynical smile that left his eyes as cold as wet coals. 'You don't,' he said simply. 'The world's not changed that much yet. Men still rule.
~ Philippa Gregory
The old laws do not stand. Everything can be remade. Marriage does not mean marriage now.
~ Phillipa Gregory
Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.
~ Unknown
He who conquers the streets conquers the masses; and he who conquers the masses conquers the state.
~ Unknown
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
~ Unknown
Carson's thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.
~ Rachel Carson
To succeed, the movement must break the bonds between parents and children, between husbands and wives.
~ Dean Koontz
This country is ours. America is over. Arcadia is rising in its place.
~ Dean Koontz
Omul nu va fi liber pân? când ultimul rege va fi spânzurat cu intestinele ultimului preot.
~ Denis Diderot
In fact he was no longer persuaded that blood and revolution made useful tools for altering the concepts in a person's mind. Who said it?—probably Confucius—" I can't beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can't free the soul of a man by violence." Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.
~ Denis Johnson
monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism
~ Dennis Prager
Let them run ahead. Then I'll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That's the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!
~ Derek Walcott
June 16, 1778 The forest between Philadelphia and Valley Forge
~ Diana Gabaldon
Boston is by all Accounts a perfect Hellhole of republican Sentiment
~ Diana Gabaldon
There is no Afghan Awakening Movement.
~ Richard Engel
One does not arrest Voltaire.
~ Charles de Gaulle