Quotes About Revolution

But our Great Leader Chairman Mao told us, 'Learn to swim from swimming.' We should learn from taking part in revolutionary activities and from active labor.

Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative dissonance from the next generation of Buddhists in the West, It is a call to awakening for the sleeping masses.

We have the ability to effect a great positive change in the world, starting with the training of our own minds and the overcoming of our deluded conditioning. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness; it is a revolutionary stance from the inside out, for the benefits of all beings in existence.

The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.

Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.

Most revolutionaries neither exactly know--nor knew--what they want: Form or Unform.

Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.

SAFFET (üzüntülü): Ne yaz?k ki devrimin çocu?u oldu?um için ilk günlerin heyecan?n? ya?ayamad?m. Ben kendimi bildi?im zaman bütün devrimler yap?l?p bitirilmi?ti. (Co?kun'a seslenir). Ben hiçbir devrime yeti?emedim üstat! CO?KUN (aynan?n arkas?ndan ba??n? ç?kararak): Ben baz?lar?nda haz?r bulundum.

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Polycarp used to dazzle youngsters with tales of heroic worker strikes. He also relished telling stories about a man called Karl Marx, a name he pronounced as Kalu Mazi.

If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, "WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS

About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then

Copernicus lived from 1473 to 1543, and

We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making

In June the earth is 184 million miles away from where it was in December: how

All that Copernicus could suggest on this head was that perhaps the atmosphere might help to carry things forward, and enable them to keep pace with the earth.