Revolution Quotes - page 11

Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself. (Jennifer Donnelly)
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. View quote
Eve Ensler
The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization. View quote
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. View quote
Ernst Toller
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. View quote
Ernst Toller
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. View quote
Ernst Toller
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. View quote
Kate Millett
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. View quote
Kate Millett
A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out. View quote
Ken Follett
Good morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. View quote
Langston Hughes
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol. View quote
Adam Michnik
A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads. View quote
Michael Azerrad
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! View quote
Arthur Hertzberg
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. View quote
Naomi Wolf
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. View quote
Christopher Dawson
If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security... View quote
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. View quote
Howard Nemerov
The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans. View quote
Henrique Capriles Radonski
The revolution will not be televised. (Gil Scott-Heron)
The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913. View quote
Frank Chodorov
The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. View quote
Kim Jong-un
There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay. View quote
Alfredo Stroessner
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. View quote
Agnes Smedley