Quotes About Revolution

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Change is not the enemy of what is sacred. Change is the champion of what is sacred.

Cuba will be free. I already am.

THE TENTH COMMANDMENT signals a revolution and prepares the way for it. This revolution comes to fruition in the New Testament. If Jesus never speaks in terms of prohibitions and always in terms of models and imitation, it is because he draws out the full consequences of the lesson offered by the tenth commandment. It is not due to inflated self-love that he asks us to imitate him; it is to turn us away from mimetic rivalries.

le fait d'accorder une importance prépondérante aux considérations d'ordre économiques, qui est un caractère très frappant de notre époque, peut être regardé comme un signe de la domination des Vaishyas, dont l'équivalent approximatif est représenté dans le monde occidental par la bourgeoisie ; et c'est bien celle-ci qui domine en effet depuis la Révolution.

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions.

The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Can one young man change a civilization?

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

By relaxing the constraints that had underpinned the vast imbalances in the global distribution of knowledge, the ICT revolution unleashed a historic transformation that might be called the Great Convergence.

The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960's was to free us from somebody else's dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like 'diversity training' and 'respect for difference.

The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.

Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

ever. Today I saw our revolution more solid and invincible than ever.

Bill's father would have remembered the Civil War, and his great-great-grandfather actually fought in the American Revolution.

The Means to Prosperity articles had momentous impact – not only because the pleasure felt in understanding subtle arguments predisposes people towards accepting their conclusions. The articles sparked international discussions which inaugurated the oncoming Keynesian Revolution.

There has been a revolution in our understanding over the last forty years, and the gains in knowledge are permanent. But we will never know everything, and that is as it should be. From the obscuring mist of the past, science has ensured that some of the mountains have emerged into clear view, but as soon as that happens the misty shadows of further peaks are glimpsed in the distance, rank upon rank: so many other heights to climb, so many mysteries to investigate.

We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.

The date of the trial, Tuesday, 21 February 1804, marked the first time a steam locomotive running on rails hauled a loaded train of freight cars—in this case, about twenty-five tons of engine, iron, wagons, and men.