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We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
— William Randolph Hearst
The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.
— Rob Brezsny
No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.
— Diana Palmer
Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution
— Katie Pavlich
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
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The decision to feed the world
is the real decision. No revolution
has chosen it. For that choice requires
that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich
is the real decision. No revolution
has chosen it. For that choice requires
that women shall be free. — Adrienne Rich
Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
— Brooke Bida
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution
— Jennifer Michael Hecht
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
— Robert Hughes
The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.
— Leo Tolstoy
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.
— Rose Wilder Lane
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
— Marianne Williamson
No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.
— Bruce LaBruce
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
— Kenneth Rexroth
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
— Vladimir Putin
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
— James Lovelock
I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago
— Lady Gaga
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
— Tariq Ali
Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.
— Stephen Spender
Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution.
— Christopher Josephs
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?
— Maaza Mengiste
Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.
— Belsebuub
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine
Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born
— Mikhail Bakunin
A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.
— Veronica Roth
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
— Richard M. Nixon
Hat our contempt often hurls from us,
We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself.. — William Shakespeare
We wish it our again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering,does become
The opposite of itself.. — William Shakespeare
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
— Vladimir Lenin
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
— Hilary Mantel
America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax.
— C.L. Gammon
Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
Let the revolution begin.
— Ron Paul
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I. F. Stone
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
— Andy Zaltzman
Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
— Benjamin Franklin
You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
— Dennis C. Blair
When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil. — Rabindranath Tagore
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil. — Rabindranath Tagore
There may never be world peace but there will always be love.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.
— Gary F. Marcus
I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.
— Ross Levinsohn
The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.
— George Shultz
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
— Eve Ensler
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
— Ernesto Che Guevara
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
— A. Philip Randolph
War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
— Anonymous
God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.
— Hilary Mantel
At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It
— Yuval Noah Harari
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
— Andrei Platonov
A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.
— Richard Paul Evans
Revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.
— Hari Sreenivasan
We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.
— Peter Sunde
Thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
— Nellie L. McClung
This forced league doth force a further strife.
— William Shakespeare
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.
— Imre Kertesz
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
— Leo Tolstoy
Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution
— Owen H. Lewis
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
— Mao Zedong
Reform is China's second revolution.
— Deng Xiaoping
You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.
— Victoria Aveyard
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.
— Thomas Jefferson
What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?
— Colin Mochrie
Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown.
— Abhijit Naskar
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
— B. J. Fogg
I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.
— Hilary Mantel
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
every revolution starts and ends with his lips
— Rupi Kaur