Famous Quotes & Sayings

William H. Seward

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

Wendell Phillips

Revolutions never go backwards.

Wendell Phillips

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Walter Rauschenbusch

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

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.

Terry Tempest Williams

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shot heard round the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions go not backward.

Ram Dass

There can be conscious revolution.

Selma James

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Shirley Chisholm

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

Shirley Chisholm

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Neil Postman

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Saul Alinsky

History is a relay of revolutions.

Tom Metzger

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Tom Hanks

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

Ron Paul

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

Ron Paul

Let the revolution begin.

Rosa Luxemburg

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Rosa Luxemburg

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Rosa Luxemburg

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Susan Griffin

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Simone Weil

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

Thomas Merton

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.

Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Robert Bourassa

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

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.