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Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
— Toni Cade Bambara
The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
— Mordecai Richler
The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.
— Noam Chomsky
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
— Samuel Adams
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
We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.
— Christine O'Donnell
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
In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides
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
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
— John F. Kennedy
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
— Kenneth Rexroth
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
— Mao Zedong
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
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
— Raoul Vaneigem
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.
— Herbert Marcuse
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
— Fareed Zakaria
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
— Tariq Ali
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
— C.L.R. James
It's the occasion that makes the revolution.
— Machado De Assis
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
— Alexander Hamilton
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
— Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution ...
— Evo Morales
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
— Richelle Mead
The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution
— Fidel Castro
The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
— Mike Yaconelli
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
— Che Guevara
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
— Mao Zedong
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
— Russell Brand
Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!
— Bryant McGill
Woe to the Revolution when the day comes, when the people, overburdened by contributions and consumed by abuses, turn to their enemies for salvation!
— Apolinario Mabini
Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled
— Simone De Beauvoir
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
— Marie Lu
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
— Patrick Henry
What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
— L. Neil Smith
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
— Jerry Rubin
Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
— Rosa Parks
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
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
— Joseph Conrad
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!
— Benjamin Franklin
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
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
You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.
— Victoria Aveyard
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
Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?
— Gustave Le Bon
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
— Leo Tolstoy
The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.
— Dennis C. Blair
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
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
— Ernesto Che Guevara
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
War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. A revolution is when you figure it out yourself.
— Anonymous
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
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
Let the revolution begin.
— Ron Paul
Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
America was not willing to chop down the Empire on October 26, 1774, but it was gripping the ax.
— C.L. Gammon
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
— William E. Gladstone
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine
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
Charge like a herd of buffalo through the fire and seek your truth. Be your own revolution.
— Christopher Josephs
Gradually, you see, our people are coming into the power they have always thought is their due.
— Hilary Mantel
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I. F. Stone
Being in the present moment, one can step outside the mechanical train of life, and this is where the inner revolution begins.
— Belsebuub
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
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
— Ferdinand Marcos
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti