Quotes About Revolution

Takie zaÅ›lepienie nie jest w historii niczym niezwykÅ'ym: to samo mo?na byÅ'o zaobserwowa? w latach trzydziestych u intelektualistów, polityków i dziennikarzy, powszechnie przekonanych, ?e Hitler "w koÅ"cu odzyska zdrowy rozsÄ…dek". Ludzie ?yjÄ…cy w okreÅ›lonym systemie spoÅ'ecznym prawdopodobnie nie potrafiÄ… sobie wyobrazi? punktu widzenia tych, którzy niczego od systemu nie oczekujÄ…c, planujÄ… jego zniszczenie.

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the one from 1793:

Each individual, however, can produce in himself a sort of cold revolution, by moving for a while outside the flow of information and advertising. This is quite simple: it has never been so easy to adopt an aesthetic position towards the world: you just need to step aside.'26 Suspend the will, be aware of the gap, actively practise being out of sync: Schopenhauer, now and forever. Agathe Novak-Lechevalier

In revolutionary times, those who accord themselves, with an extraordinary arrogance, the facile credit for having inflamed anarchy in their contemporaries fail to recognize that what appears to be a sad triumph is in fact due to a spontaneous disposition, determined by the social situation as a whole. —AUGUSTE COMTE, Cours de philosophie positive, Leçon 48

The French Revolution, the republic, the motherland Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, all that paved the way for something, something that lasted a little more than a century. The Christian Middle Ages lasted a millennium and more.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. —THOMAS JEFFERSON

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is … the most indispensable of duties. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Forgive yourself, forgive the world. Anything you hold on to, holds you up in your journey. Unshackle yourself, let go, take a flight for freedom; don't trivialize, simply MickeyMize. A forgiven world will be a healed & a peaceful world, share this for a Wellness Revolution for Human Evolution.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Sí, ya sé que uno de esos caudillos de la que llaman la revolución social ha dicho que la religión es el opio del puebo. Opio... Opio... Opio, sí. Démosle opio, y que duerma y que sueñe.

Sí, ya sé que uno de esos caudillos de la que llaman la revolución social ha dicho que la religión es el opio del pueblo. Opio… Opio… Opio, sí. Démosle opio, y que duerma y que sueñe.

Work as we know it now is a very recent historical development. It didn't exist before the great agricultural revolutions that made intensive farming possible about twelve thousand years ago.

The gospel of Christ wasn't just revolution "back then" (two thousand years ago) or isn't just revolution "someday" (in heaven). It is also right now, right where you are, with the people who surround you in your job, your life, your hobby, your home. Jesus is a threat to everything, for he turns all things upside down. Our job as the community of his followers is neither to add to nor to take away from the offense of Jesus and his message.

Jesus is not vitally committed to our comfort and safety; he is committed to the advancing of his kingdom revolution in the hearts of people everywhere.

What the politicians all feared the most. The people, the descendants of those who built this country and made it great, would one day awaken and say "No more. That's it." They will rise up and take back their country and throw all of them out and start over and try not to make the same mistakes again. Just the Constitution and a new beginning.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

The spontaneous action of the people themselves alone can create liberty.

The inconceivable had become the usual, the impossible possible, and the possible and the usual unthinkable.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.