Revolution Quotes - page 4

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament. (Edward Heath)
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer. View quote
Ba Jin
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes". View quote
Herbert Butterfield
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. View quote
James P. Cannon
The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface. View quote
James P. Cannon
To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution. View quote
Philippe Kahn
Evolution was Vladimir Ilich Lenin's problem. Lenin lead the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and took over Russia. He killed the Zar and his family in cold blood. There would not be communism in Russia today if had not been for Charles Darwin's book on evolution. View quote
Kent Hovind
We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. View quote
William O. Douglas
I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it ... All this is only the road to a World Revolution. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. (Vladimir Lenin)
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. It was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing. View quote
Donald Tsang
Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution. View quote
Franz von Papen
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature. View quote
Georg Büchner
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. (Norman Borlaug)
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people. View quote
Simone Weil
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth. View quote
Jefferson Davis
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. View quote
Paulo Freire
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. View quote
Alexander Hamilton