Revolution
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Author: Vladimir LeninTopics: Famous, Positive, Revolution
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
Author: Victor HugoTopics: Call, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Progress, Revolution, Revolutions, Tomorrow
The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can’t Washington?
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Past experiences, Revolution, Service
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Pronounced, Revolution
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Necessary, Revolution
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Constitution, Famous, Great, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nation, Revolution
It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Greatest, Revolution
The swift changes in our industrial system are causing equally swift changes in our religious, political, and social structures. An unseen and fearful revolution is taking place in the fibre and structure of society. One can only dimly feel these things. But they are in the air, now, to-day. One can feel the loom of them – things vast, vague, and terrible.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Equally, Industrial, Political, Religious, Revolution, Structure, Terrible
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Author: Iain BanksTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Important, Industrial, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Revolution
No matter what the ladies’ contribution, the Revolution was not fought to prove that all women were created equal.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Contributions, Equal, Famous, Fought, Ladies, No matter, Revolution, Women
The only kind of revolution that I am interested in is one where the mind itself is liberated
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Interested, Life, Meaningful, Mind, People, Positive, Revolution
“Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Propaganda, Revolution, Revolutions
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Humorous commentary, Looks, Revolution, Shoes, Uncomfortable, Want, Women
At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also helped screen public school textbooks, a topic which is another chapter in my book. The Alamo is managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, a group whose members can claim a relative who was living in Texas during the revolution. The fight over mismanagement of the Alamo has been going on for years.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Daughters, Famous, Revolution, School, Years
john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection
Author: George Haven PutnamTopics: Curious, Effort, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Odd feeling, Odds, Positive, Revolution, Revolutionary, Slave, Slaves, Strange, Strange place, Strange things, Strange world, Weird
Music is the biggest tool of revolution — the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can’t contribute to the world with your art, I don’t see the meaning of life.
Author: Kailash KherTopics: Contribute, Famous, Inspirational, Involvement, Meaning of life, Music, Reaching, Revolution, World, Youth
Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a single size.
Author: K. Eric DrexlerTopics: Choice, Famous, Limited, Microblock-size, Revolution
The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.
Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Famous, Revolution, Second act
I certainly don’t think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, Noble class, Revolution, Thinking
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Correct, Famous, Human Beings, Institutions, Revolution
America is the ultimate denial of the theory of man’s continuous evolution.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Famous, Revolution, Theory
We talking about revolution because that’s the era that you’re caught in.
Author: H. Rap Brown
Topics: Caught, Era, Revolution, Talking
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Famous, Hands, Leaders, Leadership, People, Revolution
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that’s the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Country, Famous, People, Revolution
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Endless, Famous, Leads, Meaningful, Revolution, Series, Times, Transformation
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Age, Reformation, Revolution, War
Oswald Cabal: There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Death, Famous, Revolution, Suffering
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Change, Disruption, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Liberty, Little, Meaningful, Necessary, Now, Physical, Political, Positive, Protests, Revolution, Storms, World
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Inspirational, Liberty, Life, Meaningful, Patriots, Positive, Refreshed, Revolution, Sacrifice, Tree
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Author: Franz Kafka
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reviews, Revolution
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Always, Especially, Essay, Famous, Immense, Immigrants, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Remember, Review, Revolution, Revolutionary act
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Author: Fidel CastroTopics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Revolution
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Author: Colin PowellTopics: Always, Famous, Feelings, Focus, Focused, Miracles, Mirror, Review, Revolution, Win
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Economic, Everybody, Famous, Greater, Information, Meaningful, Probably, Revolution
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
Author: R. Buckminster FullerTopics: Famous, Feelings, Invention, Meaningful, Political, Revolution, Societies
I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues to break new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
Author: Dwayne JohnsonTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Revolution, Revolutionary
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Famous, Feelings, Human, Human behavior, Individual achievements, Individual Choices, Life, Machines, Made, Meaningful, Revolution, Revolutionary act, Spirit
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Experiences, Fall, Fall Down, Famous, Feelings, Life, Maintaining resolutions, Make, Makeup Company, Meaningful, Revolution, Riper, Rise
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Famous, Hardworking, Life, Meaningful, Passing, Passion, Passionately, Revolution, Revolutionary act
The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Duty, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Revolution, Revolutionary act, True courage, True education
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Human, Human Being, Human Emotions, Human feelings, Importance, Revolution, Revolutionary act, Seekers
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Fall, Fall Down, Famous, Feelings, Life, Major Work, Make, Meaningful, Revolution, Riper
I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn’t like.
Author: David BowieTopics: Famous, Fighting, Inspirational, Meaningful, Revolution
You can’t put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn’t be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it’s just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.
Author: David BowieTopics: Communication, Down, Famous, Meaningful, Revolution
The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Experiences, Famous, God, Meaningful, Mischievous, Misinformed, Progress, Revolution, Science
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Change of Power, Famous, Long-Term Change, Revolution
Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Father, Idea, Ideal, Modern, Problem, Proceed, Progress, Reaching, React, Reactionaries, Revolution, Revolve
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.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Manipulation, Power, Revolution, Safeguard, Totalitarian philosophy
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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Author: George OrwellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Persecution, Power, Revolution, Torture
It takes a revolution to make a solution
Author: Bob MarleyTopics: Famous, Lesson, Life, Meaningful, Revolution, Solution
I was really into like—they call it spiritual music. ‘Cause it got me revolutionized
Author: Bob MarleyTopics: Call, Famous, Life, Music, Reality, Revolution
Revolution is not a one time event
Author: Audre LordeTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Revolution, Time
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Famous, Grasp, Illiterate, Marxism, Marxist, Meaningful, Revolution
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Enemies, Famous, Friends, Importance, Meaningful, Question, Revolution
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Essay, Famous, Painting, Pictures, Revolution
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Change, Experience, Famous, Knowledge, Meaningful, Originates, Revolution, Taste
A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Popularity, Pursuit, Revolution
Earth has also tidally locked the Moon, leaving it with identical periods of rotation on its axis and revolution around Earth. Wherever and whenever this happens, the locked moon shows only one face to its host planet.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Earth, Famous, Meaningful, Moon, Planet, Revolution, Rotation
The emancipation of women is not an act of charity, it’s a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph.
Author: Anton ChekhovTopics: Act, Charity, Famous, Feelings, Life, Necessity, Revolution
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Nature, Revolution
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Famous, Idea, Meaningful, Pleased, Revolution
The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
Author: Ambrose BierceTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Plan, Pleasure, Revenge, Revolution
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans
Author: Alexander the GreatTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, God, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Revenge, Revolution
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Ability, Compassion, Complete, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Himself, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Revolution, Rewrite
There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
Author: Leo TolstoyTopics: Challenging, Humanity, Inspirational, Positive, Positivity, Regeneration, Revolution