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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.
Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet.
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.
Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.
When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.
You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
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.
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.
We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
