Quotes About Revolution

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Digital India' is not an elite concept anymore. We have to use this idea to revolutionize health and education in India.

Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

The midwife of history is violence.

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.