Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Chodorov

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

John F. Kennedy

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

Lawrence Lessig

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

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.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

Juan Manuel Santos

The Bolivarian revolution has no future and it has shown a lack of results.

Kanye West

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

Judy Woodruff

He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Rebecca West

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

Mother Jones

I was born in revolution.

Victor Hugo

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Thomas Paine

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

Thomas Paine

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

Timothy Leary

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

Thomas Sankara

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

Thomas Sankara

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Saul Alinsky

History is a relay of revolutions.

Saul Bellow

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

Richard M. Nixon

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

Veronica Roth

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

Wallace Stevens

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Vladimir Lenin

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

Vladimir Lenin

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Vladimir Lenin

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Vladimir Lenin

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

William Godwin

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Thomas B. Macaulay

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.