Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

The Russian revolution will not be without bloodshed. I think the authorities will resist.

Marc Andreessen

This is the start of a revolution unlike any we've ever seen.

Ernst Toller

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

Evan Rachel Wood

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

Fred Hampton

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

Jesse Ventura

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

Kenneth Rexroth

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Karl Marx

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

Karl Marx

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

Georg Buchner

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Georg Buchner

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Gary Hamel

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Gloria Feldt

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Glenn Reynolds

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

Eric Cantona

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Herbert Marcuse

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Evgeny Morozov

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Italo Calvino

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

John F. Kennedy

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Mother Jones

I was born in revolution.

Lawrence Lessig

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Mohammad Khatami

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

Peter Kropotkin

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

Peter Kropotkin

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

Peter Brook

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

John Lennon

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Kathe Kollwitz

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

Kate Millett

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.