Quotes About Revolution

Mr Elliott nodded sympathetically, leaned across the table and patted his client's hand. Gillian raised an eyebrow and wondered whether the man had slept through the #MeToo revolution.

The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first century will be a Chinese century. The pendulum of history will swing from the ying ashes brought by the Cultural Revolution to the yang pheonix arising from its wreckage. Aunt Baba, pg 226. Year 1979

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order.

It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith than against knowledge. Love is less subject to change than respect. Hatred is more lasting than mere aversion. And the driving force which has brought about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which has urged them to action.

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in contrast to Europe, where between 1894 and 1914 five heads of state, three prime ministers, and one president were assassinated.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.

I always felt before Paul Brown, coaches just rolled the ball out onto the field.

I think people are going to places that they weren't able to with television before, and I think Netflix really paved the way for that. With freedom comes better content, and with better content comes great actors and a bigger audience. I think that has just snowballed into a movement for making really great TV.

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.

I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.