Revolution Quotes

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
Charles Caleb Colton

American, Events, French

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.
Alexander McQueen

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.
Ken Kesey

Time, Moving, Point

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard

Suffering, Trivial, Emphasis

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne

Single, Off, Coming

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda

Change, Great, Society

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad

May, Away, Leaders

The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.
Jerry Saltz

Good, Bad, Same

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Change, Real, Thought

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

Power, Reform, Correction

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
David Bohm

Real, Others, Able

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

Against, Exploited

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.
Isaiah Berlin

Men, Positive, Live

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov

Revelation, Perilous

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Change, Means, Simply

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
Woodrow Wilson

American, Beginning

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
Bill Ayers

Home, Parents, Rich

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Time, Lost, Dignity

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

Born, Ideals, Freedoms

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett

Women, Oppression, Begins

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.
Hannah Arendt

Become, Matter, Violence

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman

Book, Action, Loved

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Life, Yourself, Live

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Soon, Reach, Islamic

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring

Business, Technology, Keep

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel Castro

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis

Time, Become, Thin

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

Time, End, Beginning

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Poverty, American

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

Word, Heroic, Languages

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