Quotes About Revolution

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Every great change is simple.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?