Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Revolution Quotes (568 Quotes)
The revolution sweeps all before it regardless of the consequences. This is probably the most important point none of the revolutionaries are ever in control of their destinies. We, the followers, whether reluctant or enthusiastic, turn our backs or avert our eyes, or whether we embrace it with open arms, we're being swept along too.
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.
Apple is leading the digital music revolution, but at its core, it's all about the music,
This is a bloodless revolution. Nobody's getting hurt, but we're changing the way our country thinks and we're changing its immigration policy.
After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately to give help to the person who has been injured.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
It's fine if they read passages from the Constitution, the history of the country, biographies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson--who the English, back in the era of the American revolution, accused of terrorism. But then these children who are willing to practice these same precepts and theories can be reprimanded for actually living the Constitution.
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
What Madonna did with that song was to make the visual sell of the song maybe even more important than the song itself. And that was a revolution that has lasted for 20 years and counting.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
the eloquent voice of the revolution.
Even though Sony helped bring about the digital revolution, the company has failed to adapt to it. The standardization required to manufacture consumer digital products undercut the value of Sony's branded products. For example, the Chinese and other low-labor-cost manufacturers, using the same computer chips, could make the same DVD players and digital TV sets as Sony for a fraction of the cost. The result was a commoditized rat race that became unprofitable for Sony. When it became clear that Sony had to revolutionize itself, ... from an analog culture to a digital culture.
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
It's a survivor's sense of humor, maybe even a Jewish sense of humor. Because of the difficulty of life for many Eastern Europeans - the pogroms, the Revolution, the Holocaust - their humor is broad and aggressively and ridiculously comic. It also trigger
I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of
The Mac's a symbol of a whole revolution, and most of us that participated in it from the beginning and believed in it bought into these new ideals of computers to really help people, and not something that you had to fight, memorize and learn, ... That whole revolution just continues in our hearts to this day.
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart...
We have to change our behavior, ... We are the mother, the first teacher, and we have to start our own revolution. We need to speak up and say we don't like this music, we don't want to wear these clothes, and we need to educate ourselves and stop letting the men get all that airtime.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
As the president said in April, The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a crushing defeat for the forces of tyranny and terror, and a watershed event in the global democratic revolution. ... Political progress is necessary to defeat the insurgency.
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
Tree of Liberty A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, 'as symbols of growing freedom.' The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.
In 1978 when the revolution was happening it was not an Islamic Revolution, and many people involved were not Islamic fundamentalists by any stretch of the imagination.
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Revolutions are born of hope.
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
After the revolution, four soldiers from that war settled in Rochester, ... We start with them and go into the War of 1812, and the Toledo war, which was a border dispute between Michigan and Ohio. Then we go into the Black Hawk War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the two world wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Persian Gulf wars and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.... Did you ever read of any revolution in a nation ... inflicted by those who had no power at all.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.