The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
William Whyte Jryou want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao ZedongEvery revolution has its counter-revolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C Wright MillsThe experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max WeberJ'ai vecu. I survived. (Reply when asked what he did during the French Revolution)
Abbe Emmanuel Joseph SieyesThe revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel CastroWe are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love!
The Children of the revolution
Moulin RougeWinning the World Cup is the most beautiful thing to have happened to France since the Revolution.
Emmanuel PetitRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
Pierre BoulezThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartRevolution 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.
Angela Davis'Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Wyndham LewisI perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques DantonAs to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles: its commercial values will be limited. [hmm, history would tend to suggest that it helped revolutionise the world, actually]
Elisha GrayClemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille DesmoulinsEvery generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas JeffersonThe greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
Dorothy DayThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E StevensonBritain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution: In Britain our institutions evolve. [on the lack of revolution in Britain]
William HamiltonHistory teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
Hubert H HumphreyMethods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert CamusEvery successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara TuchmanTaxation without representation is tyranny. (Watchword of the American Revolution.)
James OtisEvery oppressed individual, class, race and group begins to form a mental picture of a revolution.
Alexander MalinaI meet fathers who talk about the issues of child care, some of them are going to parenting classes. But I believe we need this fathers' revolution
Gordon BrownAt the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che Guavara'There won't be any revolution in America,' said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. 'The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.'
Eric LinklaterThe revolution of rising expectations (1950)
Harlan ClevelandThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah ArendtEvery revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert CamusRevolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito MussoliniIn art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul GauguinNo one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George SandA reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonI guess with myself, I was probably the first woman to lift weights and do circuit training and to run the sand hills. [Revolutioning female tennis]
Margaret Smith CourtA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaOwning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
Florence KingThere was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre VergniaudThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie HoffmanThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai StevensonFarce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John MortimerRevolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame NkrumahWaste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco GuicciardiniWe have a back four of players from Gillingham, Wrexham, New England Revolution and San Juan Jaboleth - heard of them?
Leo BeenhakkerWe forget how he revolutionised acting. [On Marlon Brando]
Anthony QuinnA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie HoffmanHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight EisenhowerAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert Camus
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