As 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 GrayEvery successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara TuchmanThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie HoffmanThe revolution of rising expectations (1950)
Harlan ClevelandThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah ArendtRevolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame NkrumahI 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 CourtEager 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 HawthorneThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartEvery revolution has its counter-revolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C Wright MillsThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
John F KennedyThe greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
Dorothy DayClemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille DesmoulinsArt is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul GauguinIn a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George OrwellThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai StevensonMethods 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 CamusWe are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love!
The Children of the revolution
Moulin RougeNo 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 SandTaxation without representation is tyranny. (Watchword of the American Revolution.)
James OtisRevolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWinning the World Cup is the most beautiful thing to have happened to France since the Revolution.
Emmanuel PetitThe experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max WeberWe have a back four of players from Gillingham, Wrexham, New England Revolution and San Juan Jaboleth - heard of them?
Leo BeenhakkerI perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques DantonA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie HoffmanWaste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco GuicciardiniThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito MussoliniHistory 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 HumphreyRevolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
Italo CalvinoIn 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 GauguinDeep 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 MardenFarce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
John MortimerThe revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel CastroEvery generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas JeffersonRevolution 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 DavisA reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonBritain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution: In Britain our institutions evolve. [on the lack of revolution in Britain]
William HamiltonI 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 NewtonEvery oppressed individual, class, race and group begins to form a mental picture of a revolution.
Alexander MalinaAll modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert CamusThere was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre Vergniaudyou 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'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 LinklaterWe forget how he revolutionised acting. [On Marlon Brando]
Anthony QuinnJ'ai vecu. I survived. (Reply when asked what he did during the French Revolution)
Abbe Emmanuel Joseph SieyesThe 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 HillAt the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che GuavaraHere 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 EisenhowerEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
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