Quotes About Revolution

The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent technological and sociological revolution against which it is set, and which serves to strip us of any possible faith in the permanence of our labours. Our ancestors could believe that their achievements had a chance of bearing up against the flow of events.

It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered to be the observable facts!

if we are going to be genuinely Christlike, we will not be conformists! For one, our Lord can hardly be called a conformist. He disturbed the status quo, railed against injustice and lack of mercy, hung out with highly questionable people, and fomented a revolution that called for the overthrow of religious oppression.

A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

Remember, Remember! The Fifth of November!

if the starets can be killed, why can't a member of the aristocracy?' Vladimir asked. 'Why can't a member of the imperial family? Why can't the tsar himself? You must be careful when extracting a brick from the foundations, that it does not bring

Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.

Remember the Russians!

Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones that are crazy enough to change the world

Because I know from experience that sometimes its only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking.

As Auguste Comte observed, "All revolutionary ideas are only social applications of the principle of private interpretation.

The watershed of the sexual revolution was when women started to become individuals who claimed they were different in no essential way from men.

Nationalism is a phenomenon of the world after the 1789 French Revolution; it implies a common consciousness created within a consolidated territory, usually involving a single language and shared culture, producing a public rhetoric of a single national will, and with the agenda of creating or reinforcing a unitary state.

Intellectual life in the caliphal court just before and after the Abbasid revolution (750), during which time Ibn al-Muqaffa was active, revolved around questions of what we would now call rationalism – that is, questions of verifiability of information beyond the claims of revealed religions which necessarily, and notoriously, contradicted each other.

For the first time in my life, every day when I woke up I had clean clothes, and something to eat two, three times a day, as much as I wanted. Once I had that, I realized my revolution was over.

The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech and religion. These are the freedoms that, in their original form, American conservatives seek to conserve.

Our family discussed the Revolution of 1905 constantly. I was born after that, but the stories deeply affected my imagination. When I was older, I read much about how it all had happened. It think that it was a turning point -- the people stopped believing in the tsar. The Russian people are always like that -- they believe and they believe and then suddenly it comes to an end. And the ones the people no longer believe in come to a bad end.

By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery as acknowledge its presence, sanction it, and regulate its conduct.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

We know our land was here before we came and that it will be here long after we are gone. With our wine, we have survived wars, the Revolution and phylloxera. Each harvest renews promises made in the spring. We live with the continuing cycle. This gives us a taste of eternity.