All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert CamusI 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 CourtTaxation without representation is tyranny. (Watchword of the American Revolution.)
James OtisWinning the World Cup is the most beautiful thing to have happened to France since the Revolution.
Emmanuel PetitNo 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 SandRevolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
Kwame NkrumahThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable
John F KennedyWe are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love!
The Children of the revolution
Moulin Rouge'Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Wyndham LewisI 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 NewtonThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Benito MussoliniRevolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
Italo CalvinoOwning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.
Florence KingRevolution 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 DavisAs 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 GrayArt is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul GauguinThe 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 HillWe have a back four of players from Gillingham, Wrexham, New England Revolution and San Juan Jaboleth - heard of them?
Leo BeenhakkerHere 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 EisenhowerHistory 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 HumphreyThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie HoffmanRevolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMethods 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 CamusThe revolution of rising expectations (1950)
Harlan ClevelandIn 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 GauguinA reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-Lyttonyou 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 ZedongWaste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Francesco GuicciardiniThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson'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 LinklaterEvery revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert CamusAt the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che GuavaraJ'ai vecu. I survived. (Reply when asked what he did during the French Revolution)
Abbe Emmanuel Joseph SieyesEvery revolution has its counter-revolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C Wright MillsThe time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E StevensonRevolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
Pierre BoulezThe experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
Max WeberWe forget how he revolutionised acting. [On Marlon Brando]
Anthony QuinnA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
James MacGregor BurnsA modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Abbie HoffmanThe revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel CastroThe Cuban revolution had just taken place, and there was a tremendous discussion going on about it [on reading about Marxism]
Henry FlyntDeep 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 MardenClemency is also a revolutionary measure.
Camille DesmoulinsEager 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 HawthorneEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaEvery generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas JeffersonThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas EngelbartThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah ArendtThe greatest challenge of the day is how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
Dorothy Day
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