Revolution Quotes (568 Quotes)

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

It's a revolution in health care.

How long have we been hearing about all this new technology and the breathless cries of revolution, and it never happened This year, the tipping point occurred.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when...to dare is the highest wisdom.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

MIDI, and its development into audio control and manipulation, is without doubt at the heart of the revolution in music today.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I should make a distinction between two kinds of readjustment in the case of a conflict with experience, namely, between a change in the language, and a mere change in or addition of, a truth-value ascribed to an indeterminate statement (i.e. a statement whose truth value is not fixed by the rules of language, say by the postulates of logic, mathematics and physics). A change of the first kind constitutes a radical alteration, sometimes a revolution, and it occurs only at certain historically decisive points in the development of science. On the other hand, changes of the second kind occur every minute. A change of the first kind constitutes, strictly speaking, a transition from a language Ln into a new language Ln1.

Some of the players are gone, but ... not all of them were stars. If we go back before the revolution, you will see that a lot of the Cuban players were playing in the major leagues. ... We have a large number of players.

Reverend Jackson, you can be sure that we will continue fighting for the ideas of Martin Luther King, for Christ the Redeemer's idea of loving one another and building a society of equals through our peaceful and democratic revolution,

David Lange was the leader of a much-needed revolution, but he understood that it was causing unnecessary damage to working New Zealanders and had the presence of mind to call for a more human pace of reform, and to take decisive action to achieve it,

Since that day, the army has had one overriding mission to fight and to win America's wars. From the Revolution to the war on terror, wherever our soldiers have fought, they have maintained the highest standards of professionalism, of honor and of courage,

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Until now, within a single household, we've had family members who play video games and family members who don't play video games - and they've been very separate. Gradually, the barriers between those two have gotten stronger. ... Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution controller to become the standard in video game controls.

From a business perspective, the best thing that we can do is create software that companies can deploy today. To get into business environments, what you have to offer can't be about a revolution, it has to be about evolving and embracing what's out there now, and in some cases, proprietary and closed systems do make sense.

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

Whether it's one spy or hundreds, they contribute to the culture of doubt. From the early stages of the revolution, Castro has been separating families, creating divisions between friends. And it's happened in Miami, too. You don't always know who to trust.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution The war That was no part of the revolution it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years, before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.

An Ortega victory in November would leave Latin America with a third U.S. antagonist in the region, along with Cuba's Fidel Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. It would raise the morale of Latin America, ... Other countries will say, 'Look, that small country got away with it. So can we' We will spread the revolution.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

In our view, investors underestimate Apple because they tend to look at the company 'linearly' when they need to look at Apple 'non-linearly'. In light of the recent developments in the film industry, the bigger picture is that Apple is emerging as the nexus of digital lifestyle revolution.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

You have also at the same time Castro and the revolution being the glue that held the United States together with a lot of these dictators.

The services are demanding them - they can't get enough Predators in Iraq. Now the revolution has come. And it's going to be explosive over the next few years.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you cannot jail the revolution.

Winning the World Cup is the most beautiful thing to have happened to France since the Revolution.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

Womens humor is part of the revolution.

But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

The program started about five years ago and the object was to educate communications professionals about where they are going in light of the digital revolution, and this seemed to be quite a good niche, because we've grown from maybe four students five years ago.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.