Quotes About Revolution

You do remember," continues Semple, "that they turned overnight when the Shah fell and the Ayatollah came to power? You do remember that it happens that quickly?

The voice says: If the world didn't need shaking up, why would this power have come alive now?

All girls born from now on will have the power—all of them. And they'll keep it throughout life, just like the older women do if it's woken up in them. It's too late now to try to cure it; we need new ideas.

A única onda que muda alguma coisa é um tsunami. É preciso deitar as casas abaixo e destruir a terra, se quisermos ter a certeza de que não cairemos no esquecimento.

The automatic rice cooker was launched in 1955 in Japan, revolutionizing housewives' daily routines. Before that, people cooked rice in a heavy pot over a stove.

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world.

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

There are only two forces that unite men fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

In France, only the impossible is admired.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Throughout history, big changes always start with a girl meeting a boy." "No they don't," Jane said. "They start with somebody being assassinated.

Americans have dissipated their radical energy in an orgy of stone breaking.

Lelaki revolusioner yang berpegang pada prinsip-prinsip sebenarnya tidak banyak berbeda dari lelaki lainnya. Mereka mempergunakan kepintaran mereka, dengan menukarkan prinsip mereka untuk mendapatkan apa yang dapat dibeli orang lain dengan uang. Revolusi bagi mereka tak ubahnya sebagai seks bagi kami. Sesuatu yang disalahgunakan. Sesuatu yang dapat dijual.

But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.

It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?

When you destroyed autocratic regimes, you caused more death and suffering than the regime itself, and often ended up with something worse. Your violent revolutions never resulted in anything better, and your revolutionaries always turned into the thing they despised.

when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for "freedom," be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he's fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do. ANTARES

It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.