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Revolutions Quotes (page 14)

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings. Joseph Conrad
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. Chuck Palahniuk
Terry Eagleton quote: "Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all..."
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. Terry Eagleton
This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were they the stuff of Literature? At best, they might aspire to the condition of onlookers and bystanders, part of a social backdrop against which real, true, important things could happen. Like what? The things Literature was about: Love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, justice,... Julian Barnes
Albert Meltzer quote: "If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about."
If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about. Albert Meltzer
Nina Simone quote: "It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk."
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk. Nina Simone
Che Guevara quote: "The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals..."
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day Che Guevara
...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution. Louis Althusser
Ninety-three" was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century Victor Hugo
As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world. David McCullough
Haruki Murakami quote: "What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out..."
What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? Haruki Murakami
Ryszard Kapuscinski quote: "If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say..."
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over. Ryszard Kapuscinski
The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth. Barack Obama
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening... Steven Pinker
One must require from each one the duty with each one can perform," said the king. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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