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Quotes About Revolution

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.
~ Marc Andreessen
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
~ Brian Setzer
This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
~ Oliver Tambo
Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.
~ Lowell McAdam
You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
~ Quavo
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.
~ Paul Hawken
If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
~ Caitlin Stasey
A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
~ Rand Paul
When I heard Charlie Parker, I knew that that was going to be the new wave, the new way to play jazz. From that point on, I was sold with... the idea of bebop.
~ Buddy DeFranco
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well - a negative spiritual revolution.
~ Michael O'Brien
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a little sad that they actually came up with the metaphor of waves for feminism. By definition, a wave goes in, and it comes out. I would really like it to be a tsunami that creates a flood that forever changes the landscape.
~ Nell Scovell
I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.
~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.
~ Brad Goreski
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.
~ William Mougayar
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
~ Thomas Bangalter
I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.
~ Thom Yorke
Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
~ Bhagat Singh
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
~ Michelle Alexander
The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.
~ Alexander Lukashenko
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
~ Agnes Smedley