Quotes About Revolution

Robespierristes, antirobespierristes, nous vous crions grâce: par pitié, dites-nous, simplement, quel fut Robespierre.

Mens de samme trivielle tingene skjer daglig, roterer verden med store omdreininger.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Tout bon livre est un attentat. [in Essai sur moi-même]

Putting her trust in God, she displayed the same optimistic excitement on the eve of a garden party or on the eve of a revolution, whereby her hasty gestures seemed to exorcise radicalism or inclement weather.

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.

Shipley—One Toke Over the Line Ramones—I Wanna Be Sedated The Clash—Should I Stay or Should I Go Talking Heads—Burning Down the House Dmitri Shostakovich—Jazz Suite No. 2: Waltz 2

Marquis de Lafayette

Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here 'I lost my land' is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate--'We lost *our* land.

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property

Stone and wood had been the coin of the building realm until the arrival of cast iron in the middle of the nineteenth century. Until then the weight of buildings had been borne by their walls, but in 1848 James Bogardus used a skeleton of cast-iron posts and beams to support a building from within. Since the walls no longer bore the load, they could be freed from their former obligations.

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

My fantasy of Cuba was that everybody was going to be going around looking like Fidel, with green uniforms - and it was very different from my vision of how Cuba was going to be.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.