Revolution Quotes - page 6

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. (Theodore Kaczynski)
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
I am still praying for revolution. View quote
Ani DiFranco
Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right” a revolution was fought. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. View quote
Bell hooks
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move from traditional resources to the one asset: knowledge. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
The peoples' revolution .... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution. (Louis Antoine de Saint-Just)
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The Revolution is frozen; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon ... The Revolution must stop itself at the perfection of public happiness and liberty through the laws. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard. View quote
Adolfo Bioy Casares
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty. View quote
Lucy Parsons
We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these- all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution. (Glenn Beck)
We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis [pointing at blackboard] of those two words, "Social Security." View quote
Glenn Beck
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. View quote
Terry Eagleton
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it. View quote
Pierre Schaeffer
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. View quote
Murray Bookchin