Revolution Quotes - page 2

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. (Adlai Stevenson II)
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. View quote
Warren G. Harding
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara. View quote
Phil Ochs
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. View quote
H. G. Wells
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. View quote
Havelock Ellis
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. View quote
Joseph Conrad
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. View quote
Béla Bartók
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked. (John Dewey)
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. View quote
André Malraux
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. View quote
Georg Büchner
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. View quote
Karel Čapek
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. View quote
Maya Angelou
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. View quote
George Washington
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. View quote
Johan Huizinga
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. (Abbie Hoffman)
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. View quote
Denis Leary
The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception. View quote
David Icke
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. View quote
George Orwell
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. View quote
Will Durant