Quotes about revolution
revolution technological
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. Nathan Myhrvold
revolution kind turns
I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else. Jesse Ventura
revolution action american-freedom
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Patrick Henry
revolution distinction virginians
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
revolutionary strategy significance
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy. Leon Trotsky
revolution
[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."
revolution problem revolutionary
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
revolutionary existence significance
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
revolution determined revolutionary
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
revolution
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
revolution strategy possibility
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.
revolution defeat socialism
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.
revolution suffrage universal
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
revolution purpose triggers
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society Nelson Mandela
revolution awareness happened
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! Ida Tarbell
revolution propaganda pipe
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. I. F. Stone
revolution facts awareness
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution. Kenneth R. Miller
revolution socialist
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else. Ken Livingstone
revolution graves halfway
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. Georg Buchner
revolution made
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
revolution patriot makers
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. Gary Hamel
revolution midst unfinished
Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution. Gloria Feldt
revolution states wells
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature. Glenn Reynolds
revolution tomorrow transformation
Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow. Jiddu Krishnamurti
revolution revolutionary
You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. Fred Hampton
revolution facts adam
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. P. J. O'Rourke
revolution conformity rebellion
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. Louis Kronenberger
revolutionary rebellion
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
revolution needs bases
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself. Jawaharlal Nehru
revolution unlikely stage
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. Herbert Marcuse
revolution may democratic
Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic. Evgeny Morozov
revolution politician made
We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out. Fidel Castro
revolution retreat triumph
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat. George III