Revolution Quotes

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We forget how he revolutionised acting. [On Marlon Brando]
Anthony Quinn

In 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 Gauguin

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor Burns

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre Vergniaud

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille Desmoulins

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame Nkrumah

you 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 Zedong

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus

Here 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 Eisenhower

No 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 Sand

Every revolution has its counter-revolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C Wright Mills

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
Florence King

'Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Wyndham Lewis

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
John F Kennedy

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert Camus

The revolution of rising expectations (1950)
Harlan Cleveland

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

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max Weber

We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love! The Children of the revolution
Moulin Rouge

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution: In Britain our institutions evolve. [on the lack of revolution in Britain]
William Hamilton

I 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 Court

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John Mortimer

I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Revolutionary Suicide)
Huey Newton

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
Orison Swett Marden

The greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
Dorothy Day

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie Hoffman

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin

We have a back four of players from Gillingham, Wrexham, New England Revolution and San Juan Jaboleth - heard of them?
Leo Beenhakker

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 Jr

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito Mussolini

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che Guavara

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
Italo Calvino

I 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 Brown

History 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 Humphrey

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

J'ai vecu. I survived. (Reply when asked what he did during the French Revolution)
Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Taxation without representation is tyranny. (Watchword of the American Revolution.)
James Otis

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

Methods 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 Camus

Every oppressed individual, class, race and group begins to form a mental picture of a revolution.
Alexander Malina

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The betting market is only going to get bigger and bigger and the internet revolution has brought a whole new set of people who would never go into the traditional bookies.
William Hill



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