Quotes About Revolution

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

I feel like I'm changing pop culture.

Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

All I've ever wanted to do is move the needle on popular culture.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly attribute to democracy today.

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.

Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking.

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism began.

People blame the 1960s for just about everything these days, but it was the decade when all that post-war furtiveness and small-mindedness was finally blown open, and opportunity really came knocking.

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.