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His eyes spark with revolutions, enlightened trickery and unconditional affection. — Laurie Perez

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. — William H. Seward

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike. — Bill Haywood

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill — Theodore Roosevelt

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. — John Mortimer

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable — Albie Sachs

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it — Otto Von Bismarck

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke

In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success. — M.F. Moonzajer

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. — Stephen R. Covey

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people. — Giuseppe Mazzini

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. — Benjamin Disraeli

Revolutions are 90% social diarrhea. — G. Willow Wilson

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears. — Rob Brown

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. — Chuck D

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. — Stephen Hawking

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere. — Giuseppe Mazzini

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology. — Vladimir Putin

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water? — Francis Bond Head

Revolutions are ninety percent social diarrhea. — G. Willow Wilson

castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011. — Yuval Noah Harari

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul De Man

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, — Malcolm Gladwell

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale. — David Harvey

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. — Hu Shih

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries. — Sergei Lavrov

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes. — Nawal El Saadawi

Right. I'm sure that poor etiquette is the number one reason for most failed revolutions. — Marissa Meyer

Revolutions are won with blood, not words. — Alexandra Bracken

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet. — Robbie Robertson

Revolutions are infinite. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man. — Victor Hugo

The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with. — Saul Bellow

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head. — Joel Shepherd

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. — Gary Hamel

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact. — Ken Robinson

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. — John Kenneth Galbraith

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars. — Banksy

Revolutions never go backwards. — Wendell Phillips

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions — Motsoko Pheko

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. — Malcolm X

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. — Scott Cook

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. — Alan Greenspan

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy. — Louise Bogan

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition. — Arnold Beichman

Revolutions are not made with rosewater. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All revolutions devour their own children. — Ernst Rohm

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions? — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. — Richelle Mead

All revolutions are violent revolutions. — Paul Watson

Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive. — Alexandria Constantinova Szeman

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. — James Joyce

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. — Pierre Boulez

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions — Adolf Hitler

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. — Gloria Steinem

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries. — Jean-Luc Godard

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure. — John Lennon

The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless. — Maajid Nawaz

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain. — Stephen Jay Gould

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The more revolutions occur, the less things change. — Georgie Anne Geyer

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. — Francesco Guicciardini

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky

The problem with revolutions is that they always end right where they begin. — Matthew Catania

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities. — Peter Kropotkin

Revolutions are not made for export. — Nikita Khrushchev

Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border. — Mark Kurlansky

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold

The powerful don't make revolutions — Marge Piercy

I see only adaptations - not revolutions. — Gordon Getty

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won. — Wilson Rawls

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. — H.L. Mencken

Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better. — Gail Dines

Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity. — Sheryl Sandberg

Revolutions are never peaceful. — Malcolm X

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. — Margaret Thatcher

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ... — Charles A. Reich

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world. — Madeleine Thien

We don't need new governments
new revolutions
we don't need new men
new women
we don't need new ways
we just need to care. — Charles Bukowski

Feminism is small revolutions, every day — Manju Kapur

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen. — J.S.B. Morse

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time. — Thomas Jefferson

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. — Mohammed Morsi

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. — Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis De Tocqueville

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose. — Thomas Paine