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Revolution Quotes

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

– Fidel Castro

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

– Fred Hampton

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph – these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

– Gary Shteyngart

Although prefabrication has a long history – the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples – the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

– Martin Filler

In ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls,’ Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

– Madison Smartt Bell

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it’s moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks’ efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

– Gil Scott-Heron

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

– Edward Ball

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

– Ernst Toller

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

– Nicholas A. Christakis

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

– George Sand

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

– Ferdinand Marcos

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

– Eric Cantona

Adam Smith’s huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

– P. J. O’Rourke

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the ‘Great’ in Great Britain, and led to Britain’s temporary world domination.

– David J. C. MacKay

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

– Mark Poster

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

– Ernest Mandel

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

– Charles A. Beard

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer’s art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

– Edvard Munch

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

– Daniel Berrigan

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

– Mercy Otis Warren

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

– Franz Kafka

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

– Norm Dicks

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters – that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that’s tremendously freeing. If it doesn’t matter much, the stakes are lower and you can’t really fail. It’s insurrection. It’s a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

– Daphne Gottlieb

Let’s dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.

– Nicolas Maduro

Sexuality surrounds us like a dangerous aura. The same reverence that is given to the spirit is not given to the flesh. We have had a sexual revolution, but the sexual revolution only has made sex more pervasive. It hasn’t granted the level of reverence and respect that it should have.

– Gioconda Belli

And I don’t expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did – and really didn’t – in the 1960s.

– Michael Stipe

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

– Evgeny Morozov

If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.

– Emma Goldman

The first PC that I actually bought myself was a Toshiba Papman in 1985. This model was one of the very first laptops; I remember that it was a revolution at the time!

– Francois-Henri Pinault

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

– Paul Gauguin

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