revolution quotes

• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. (George Sand) [revolution]
• The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. (John Adams) [revolution/war/revolution/people]
• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. (Hannah Arendt) [willpower/day/revolution]
• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ( Aristotle) [revolution/crime]
• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence. (Jean Baudrillard) [crisis/revolution/consequence/consequence]
• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. (Albert Camus) [give/revolution/reality/rebellion]
• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. (Albert Camus) [revolution/order/balance]
• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. (Albert Camus) [more/more/revolution]
• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [revolution/order/democracy/democracy]
• The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. (Charles Caleb Colton) [revolution/revolution]
• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. (Joseph Conrad) [revolution]
• It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. (Benjamin Disraeli) [revolution/acts/imagination]
• All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Havelock Ellis) [time/time/revolution]
• Every revolution was first a thought in one mans mind. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [revolution/mind]
• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [desire/age/revolution/being]
• Art is either plagiarism or revolution. (Paul Gauguin) [art/revolution]
• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [revolution/people/government]
• The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer. (Eric Hoffer) [revolution/wish/men/action]
• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. (John F. Kennedy) [defense/revolution/human/start]
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. (John F. Kennedy) [revolution/willpower/revolution]
• In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. (Martin Luther King) [revolution]
• There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [thing/revolution/changes/taste]
• We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. (Henry Miller) [control/danger/revolution/]
• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. (George Orwell) [order/revolution/revolution/order]
• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. (George Orwell) [wealth/etiquette/revolution/human]
• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. (George Sand) [revolution]
• There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. (Denis Leary) [revolution/clothes]
• There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. (Denis Leary) [revolution/clothes]
• Oh, yes, my grandfather was Irish, and he was - he was with a visiting bunch of Irish that came to fight in the revolution in Mexico. (Anthony Quinn) [grandfather/fight/revolution]
• “I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of” (Abraham Harold Maslow) [think/psychology/revolution/thinking]
• And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. (George Gordon Byron) [agreeable/revolution]

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