Revolution Quotes

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

~ Tom Stoppard

I never meant to be in romantic comedies; it's just what ended up happening. But they are tricky, in a post-1960s sexual revolution way. It was easier when you couldn't have sex scenes: everything crackled very nicely. They're not easy.

~ Hugh Grant

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

~ Alice Walker

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

~ Patti Smith

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

~ Charles A. Beard

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

~ Che Guevara

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

~ Donella Meadows

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

~ James Lovelock

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

~ Jonathan Sacks

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

~ Terry Eagleton

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

~ Rosa Luxemburg

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

~ Mitt Romney