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Revolution Quotes

We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution Picture Quote #1

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power Picture Quote #1

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime Picture Quote #1

If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play Picture Quote #1

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You’d go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist Picture Quote #1

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land Picture Quote #1

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The Second Green Revolution, as the world’s population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent Picture Quote #1

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power Picture Quote #1

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don’t know where and how it all ends Picture Quote #1

Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power Picture Quote #1

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine} Picture Quote #1

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free Picture Quote #1

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The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called free relationships were overrated Picture Quote #1

If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition Picture Quote #1

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women Picture Quote #1

I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success Picture Quote #1

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic Picture Quote #1

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don’t want another one Picture Quote #1

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When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity Picture Quote #1

Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code Picture Quote #1

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets Picture Quote #1

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: ‘Yes, madam, everything’s going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you’ll carry coal.’ Picture Quote #1

There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts Picture Quote #1

We don’t want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them Picture Quote #1

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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy Picture Quote #1

Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide Picture Quote #1

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally Picture Quote #1

In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of Waiting for Godot better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science Picture Quote #1

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion Picture Quote #1

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned Picture Quote #1

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We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution (Revolution Quotes) The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. (Revolution Quotes) Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime. (Revolution Quotes) If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second World War - they have all been creative reinventions, the moment new forms of luxury come into play. (Revolution Quotes) People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You’d go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist. (Revolution Quotes) If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land (Revolution Quotes) The Second Green Revolution, as the world’s population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent. (Revolution Quotes) Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. (Revolution Quotes) Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don’t know where and how it all ends. (Revolution Quotes) Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power. (Revolution Quotes) The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine} (Revolution Quotes) The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free. (Revolution Quotes) The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called free relationships were overrated. (Revolution Quotes) If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition. (Revolution Quotes) The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women. (Revolution Quotes) I was first elected to public office when the Reagan revolution was in full swing. Maximizing freedom guided the policies of that era, with tremendous success. (Revolution Quotes) The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment’s greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic. (Revolution Quotes) It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don’t want another one. (Revolution Quotes) When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn’t choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity. (Revolution Quotes) Iris Johansen’s lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught’s heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code. (Revolution Quotes) After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London’s primacy in the money markets. (Revolution Quotes) The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: ‘Yes, madam, everything’s going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you’ll carry coal.’ (Revolution Quotes) There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. (Revolution Quotes) We don’t want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. (Revolution Quotes) How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy. (Revolution Quotes) Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide. (Revolution Quotes) My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon’s despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally. (Revolution Quotes) In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of Waiting for Godot better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science. (Revolution Quotes) However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion. (Revolution Quotes) Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned (Revolution Quotes)

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