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Tag Name "Revolutions" (226)

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
Robert Kennedy
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
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Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
Faye Wattleton
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In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about that - for me, creativity is an important part of our evolution. Art has probably done more good for the world than war. But they're equally powerful. They both create revolutions.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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How quickly revolutions grow old and, worse still, respectable.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
Gijs de Vries
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Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.
Michio Kaku
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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.
Thomas Paine
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All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
John Lennon
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Victor Hugo
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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
Henry David Thoreau
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Revolutions never go backward.
William H. Seward
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People often say, Riots aren't revolutions. That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.
Joshua Clover
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
John Stuart Mill
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In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.
Michael McFaul
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Revolutions are not push button affairs rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
Michael Parenti
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I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William H. Seward
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.
Ron Paul
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Revolutions go not backward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
William S. Burroughs
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