Quotes About Revolution

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

But the telegraph demands that we burn its contents.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [ Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference , Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

The lesson I took away from the campaign was that in the end, we had no alternative to armed and violent resistance. Over and over again, we had used all the nonviolent weapons in our arsenal—speeches, deputations, threats, marches, strikes, stay-aways, voluntary imprisonment—all to no avail,

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

El mundo no tiene corazón. —Entonces hay que cambiar el mundo. Darle

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

It was a new beginning for France.

For a nation that had been without a real head of state since the execution of Louis XVI,

It did not go to King George III.

According to one estimate, the number of books produced in the fifty years following Gutenberg's invention equaled the number produced by European scribes during the preceding thousand years.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

Tell me. You're a man who understands history," I said. "If you want to start a revolution, why not issue a manifesto? Why not show the people who you are, what you're doing?" He leaned back, grateful to explain. "That's perfectly understandable. Socrates wrote nothing down. Neither did Jesus. The problem with text is that it assumes it's own reality. It cannot answer, and it cannot explain.

In Iran after the 1979 revolution, the Islamists reduced the minimum age of marriage for girls to nine. In 2000, under pressure from women's rights activists, the Iranian parliament voted to raise it to fifteen. However, the Council of Guardians, an anti-democratic oversight body dominated by traditional clerics, vetoed the reform, saying that the new ruling was contrary to Islamic law.

We just see Happy Mondays as this licence to do what we want right now as much as possible.

Neo-China arrives from the future.

Old ways are not always the best ways.

Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.