Revolution Quotes

Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.

– Samora Machel

As far back as Iran’s aborted ‘Green Revolution’ in 2009, Obama’s supplications to Iran’s ruling theocracy have amounted to diplomatic shivs in the backs of Iran’s youthful democratic insurrectionists, mash notes written directly to Khomeinist supremo Ali Khamenei and the scuttling of programs documenting the regime’s human rights outrages.

– Terry Glavin

You are not thinking hard enough if you are sleeping well. And you would have to be unhinged to take on a subject like the French Revolution, or Rembrandt, and not feel some trepidation. There is always the possibility that you will crash and burn, and the whole thing will be a horrible, vulgar, self-indulgent mess.

– Simon Schama

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

– Terry Eagleton

We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism… We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.

– Sun Yat-sen

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

– Xi Jinping

QuickBooks – the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed – was a total revolution to me.

– Scott Cook

Don’t worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

– Tawakkol Karman

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution… fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

– Sonny Mehta

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