Quotes on Revolution

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution