Revolution Quotes - Page 21

• The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

  Enver Hoxha

  Particular

  Enver Hoxha, Instituti i Studimeve Marksiste-Leniniste (1974). “Selected works”

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.

  Hal Abelson

  Thinking, Way, Computer

  7 Copy quote

• Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men pace the rich fields of harvest. The revolution which is about to break will be sterile if it is not complete.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Strong, Lying, Men

  11 Copy quote

• We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

  Nikolai Bukharin

  People, Enemy, Opponents

  "Programme of the World Revolution". Book by Nikolai Bukharin. Chapter VII: "Freedom for the Working Class and the poorest Elements of the Peasantry; Restrictions for the Bourgeoisie", www.marxists.org. 1918.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

  Duane Allman

  Peaches, Georgia, Evolution

  89 Copy quote

• De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor can we overlook the contribution of the entertainment industry, which now determines what passes for 'culture.' The main practical vehicle of de-Christianization has been the Sexual Revolution. A few radicals have called for the abolition of the family, but most liberals have been more discreet, avoiding hostile rhetoric while quietly but constantly pursuing policies that result in lower birthrates and fatherless children.

  Joseph Sobran

  Children, America, Government

  31 Copy quote

• The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

  Joseph Sobran

  Successful, United States, Constitution

  28 Copy quote

• According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home, now, ours and our children's to come—into a raging inferno. We are surrounded by a Ring of Fire. Well, I've fought forest fires before. So have lots of other men in this room. The best way to fight [such] a fire is to start a counterfire. So my position is simple. I say we start the American Revolution—a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!

  Michael Stearns

  Kings, Children, Home

  5 Copy quote

• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, School, Patriotic

  William Z. Foster (1961). “Toward Soviet America: The book the communists tried to destroy!”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

  102 Copy quote

• Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

  Godfried Danneels

  Philosophy, Discipline, Vatican Ii

  68 Copy quote

• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Andre Norton

  Mistake, Thinking, Race

  21 Copy quote

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  William Godwin

  Pregnancy, Tyranny, Indignation

  36 Copy quote

• Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Aquariums, Essentials, Original Thought

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 2, 1936.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Communication, Triumph

  11 Copy quote

• There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Moral, Regeneration

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

  Jubal Early

  War, Heart, Hands

  44 Copy quote

• Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

  John Mortimer

  Tragedy, Theatre, Farce

  8 Copy quote

• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  Adolfo Suarez, 1st Duke of Suarez

  Internet Revolution, Internet, Knows

  5 Copy quote

• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Jerry Rubin

  Sex, Rebellious, Backseat

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

  4 Copy quote

• Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, History, Achievement

  Thomas Sowell (2008). “Conquests And Cultures: An International History”, p.67, Basic Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Eulogy, Lasts

  4 Copy quote

• Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

  Alice Walker

  Brilliant, Consciousness, Rebellion

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.236, New Press, The

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

  Gregory Bateson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Hands

  77 Copy quote