Quotes with revolutions

  • 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.

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  • Bernard M. Baruch During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Aristotle Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Banksy All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • John Mortimer Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Aristotle In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Sand 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
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Leon Trotsky Revolutions are always verbose.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Nikita Khrushchev Revolutions are not made for export.
    Nikita Khrushchev
    Soviet statesman (1894 - 1971)
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  • Wendell Phillips Revolutions are not made, they come.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Selma James Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants - even women! - new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
    Selma James
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Revolutions go not backward.
    Nature - Conduct of Life (1860) War
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Wendell Phillips Revolutions never go backward.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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