Quotes About Revolution

A coalition of disgruntled Mattachine members, along with lesbians and gay men who identified with the pro–Black Power, antiwar New Left, called for a meeting on July 24, 1969. The flyer announcing the meeting was headlined, "Do you think homosexuals are revolting? You bet your sweet ass we are." This

But nothing could stand before our lads, they routed them from the Meadow, & all afterwards was a mere Chace, so far I saw."1 — James Parker, September 11, 1777

Modern perception imagines Washington as a grey-haired old man leading troops into battle, when in fact he pulled his dark red hair (he never wore a wig) pulled back into a queue and powdered it white during the Revolution.

more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

the devil's purpose in sowing revolution in the Church is to throw her into confusion. Thus, her attention is distracted and her energies scattered. In this way, we are weakened at precisely the moment of history when we need to be strongest.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry. { Commenting on Henri Becquerel 's process for extracting metals by voltaic means .}

around Frederick, just as it had around George

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It is wrong to judge revolutions by whether they succeed or fail. Virtually all revolutions fail. Either they fail literally and are reversed by forces of reaction or they fail metaphorically by compromising their lofty goals. The fairest way to assess the impact of a revolution is by the fact that it happens at all.

At the time of the American Revolution, we consumed about an estimated four pounds of sugar per person per year.1575 Now, we may each average more than fifty pounds annually.1576 That's the equivalent of about seventeen teaspoons of added sugars every day.

The doctrine of creation ex nihilo, in other words, is not a freestanding cosmology. Rather, it is a function of the doctrine of God and the modifications forced upon that doctrine by the Incarnation, which inaugurated a metaphysical revolution that would take up the Greek inheritance and fulfill it from beyond its own resources.

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

The most singularly significant bond between Cincinnatus and Washington is Washington's resignation of the military commission at the end of the Revolution. As a military leader, Washington fought the entire conflict under the assumptions of only two formal pledges: to resign as soon as independence was won and to receive no compensation for his efforts.394

We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives—actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11.

Harvard historian Crane Brinton (The Anatomy of Revolution) pointed out that revolutionary sentiments generally develop in periods of long-term economic progress, not abject deprivation. When business produces a sharp increase in living standards, the 'revolution of rising expectations' leaves workers and farmers impatient for more rapid advancement.

The remarkable rise of 'convenience' or processed foods—heralded by slogans 'instant,' 'ready to cook' and 'heat and serve'—has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

Fire and idealism may be fine qualities for the leader of a revolution, but the leader of a great republic needs to be several degrees cooler and a good deal more canny.

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

Today, we are able to do what your parents would would have dismissed as impossible and your grandparents as nothing short of magical.

Oppenheimer explained that nuclear weapons had created a revolution in foreign policy. No defense against them was possible, only deterrence, or frightening away adversaries through the threat of assured destruction.

Trump, in Bannon's view, was a chapter, or even a detour, in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weakness in the two major parties. The Trump presidency - however long it lasted - had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders their opportunity. Trump was just the beginning.

We need to cut off the King´s Head: in political theory that has still to be done.