Revolution Quotes - page 3

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. (George Orwell)
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. View quote
Will Durant
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas. View quote
Bill Hicks
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution. View quote
Victor Hugo
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. View quote
Martha Beck
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. View quote
Dario Fo
The backseat produced the sexual revolution. View quote
Jerry Rubin
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor. (Loretta Napoleoni)
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
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. View quote
Daisaku Ikeda
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ. View quote
Mark Hopkins
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. View quote
Kelly Lynch
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. View quote
Steve Buyer
Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority to military affairs, and defends the country, the revolution and socialism and dynamically pushes ahead with overall socialist construction by dint of the revolutionary mettle and combat capabilities of the People's Army. View quote
Kim Jong-il
The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader. View quote
Kim Jong-il
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. View quote
Fidel Castro
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives. View quote
Fidel Castro
I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution. (Fidel Castro)
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. View quote
Daniel Berrigan
The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one end to the other. The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklins electrical Rod, smote the Earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod-and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy, Negotiations, Legislatures and War. View quote
John Adams
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it the finger of that Almighty Hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the Revolution. View quote
James Madison
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes and the crimes which they have instigated, men of faith who claim to be sent by God. I hope they will eventually realize that the revolution which they believe they have brought about is not to the glory of God, but serves the forces of evil. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi