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Quotes About Revolution

distinctive hammer and sickle signifying workers and peasants, would never fly again. When she told Kira of that night she had smiled. Change was on the winds.
~ Unknown
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.
~ Jack Foster
there was supposed to be this man who was Jewish and claimed to be God's son. For this the powers-that-be killed him, because they were scared he might lead a revolution or something. Supposedly he was to come back from the dead. One Jew was supposed to have cursed him at his execution and been told that he would stay until this god-man returned.
~ Jack L. Chalker
Money bought access. But the Second American Revolution had happened, people began taking the Constitution seriously again, and the practice of renting and buying congressmen had been stopped by the simple expedient of getting money out of the campaigns. Contributions of all types became illegal. Campaigns were funded by the voters. You gave money to a politician, it constituted bribery, and you could go to jail.
~ Jack McDevitt
In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it with stunned awe and then, being men, destroyed it without thought, for being new and strange.
~ Unknown
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
~ Jackson Browne
The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.
~ Unknown
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
~ Jackson Pollock
CHAPTER I. MARIUS AND SYLLA.
~ Jacob Abbott
I want to write this down, that the revolution is like a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. And maybe for a short time, we're a part of that history. And then the ride stops and our turn is over.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I want to write this down, that revolution is like a merry-go-round, history always being made somewhere. And maybe for a short time, we're part of that history. And then the ride stops and our turn is over. We walk slowly toward the park, where I can already see the big swings empty and waiting for me. And after I write it down, maybe I'll end it this way. My name is Jacqueline Woodson and I am ready for the ride.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
In consequence of the claims which God is always making on the world the Christian finds himself, by that very fact, involved in a state of permanent revolution. Even when the institutions, the laws, the reforms which he has advocated have been achieved, even if society be re-organized according to his suggestions, he still has to be in opposition, he still must exact more, for the claim of God is as infinite as His forgiveness.
~ Jacques Ellul
fond of offending his superiors and is fond of making revolutions has never been known.
~ Unknown
The borderlines of the secrecy world, the distance between what is hidden and the public's right to know, was shifting quickly. 'We live in a time of inexpensive, limitless digital storage and fast internet connections that transcend national boundaries,' the anonymous leaker wrote. 'It doesn't take much to connect the dots: from start to finish, inception to global media distribution, the next revolution will be digitized.
~ Unknown
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
~ James Agee
Everything must belong to everybody and must present the hypothesis of a world without god, without king, without government, without masters.
~ Unknown
Anarchism rejects authority in any form: to the principle of representation, it opposes the direct and independent action of individuals and masses: to !egalitarian and parliamentarian action, it opposes rebellion, insurrection, the general strike, the social revolution.
~ Unknown
El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.
~ Unknown
Auch das praktische Leben ist ein schwarzes Loch, das uns in den Tod führt. Revolution, Anarchie, Freiheit sind der Lohn des Denkens. Sie haben nur einen einzigen Thron, unseren Kopf.
~ Luis Bunuel
Tus ojos que están llenos de selvas y son un manifiesto, desordenadamente me hacen aventurero y revolucionario
~ Unknown
If the communist party under the leadership of Joma Sison insists on being too radical, too incorrigible, they will fail. They will, as the saying goes, "die on the vine." They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them. They should instead abide by the people's interest...
~ Unknown
Ascolta, soltanto quando governeremo una città, aboliremo l'uso del denaro, il possesso privato dei beni e le differenze di censo, allora la luce della nostra fede sarà così potente da illuminare tutte le genti.
~ Unknown
She eats her potatoes as though she would make a revolution among them, as though they were the People.
~ Lydia Davis
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Lyn Nofziger