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I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
— William H. Seward
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
— Bill Haywood
A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill
— Theodore Roosevelt
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
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
— Otto Von Bismarck
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
— M.F. Moonzajer
The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
— Stephen R. Covey
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Revolutions are 90% social diarrhea.
— G. Willow Wilson
The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
— Stephen Hawking
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.
— Vladimir Putin
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?
— Francis Bond Head
Revolutions are ninety percent social diarrhea.
— G. Willow Wilson
castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
— Yuval Noah Harari
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.
— Michael McFaul
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,
— Malcolm Gladwell
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.
— David Harvey
Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.
— Sergei Lavrov
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.
— Nawal El Saadawi
Right. I'm sure that poor etiquette is the number one reason for most failed revolutions.
— Marissa Meyer
Revolutions are won with blood, not words.
— Alexandra Bracken
It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.
— Robbie Robertson
Revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.
— Joel Shepherd
Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.
— Ken Robinson
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Revolutions never go backwards.
— Wendell Phillips
Poverty is the mother of all revolutions
— Motsoko Pheko
Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.
— Malcolm X
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
— Alan Greenspan
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.
— Louise Bogan
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
— Arnold Beichman
Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
All revolutions devour their own children.
— Ernst Rohm
And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?
— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
— Richelle Mead
All revolutions are violent revolutions.
— Paul Watson
Words make more revolutions than swords. Words cut deeper than knives. Words cut more cleanly, and leave the victim alive.
— Alexandria Constantinova Szeman
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
— James Joyce
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
— Pierre Boulez
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
— Gloria Steinem
It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
— John Lennon
Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
— Noam Chomsky
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
— Peter Kropotkin
Revolutions are not made for export.
— Nikita Khrushchev
Revolutions are always easier to admire from across the border.
— Mark Kurlansky
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
— Nathan Myhrvold
The powerful don't make revolutions
— Marge Piercy
I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
— Gordon Getty
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
— H.L. Mencken
Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.
— Gail Dines
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Revolutions are never peaceful.
— Malcolm X
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
— Margaret Thatcher
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ...
— Charles A. Reich
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
— Kwame Nkrumah
I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.
— Madeleine Thien
We don't need new governmentsnew revolutions
we don't need new men
new women
we don't need new ways
we just need to care. — Charles Bukowski
Feminism is small revolutions, every day
— Manju Kapur
When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.
— J.S.B. Morse
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
— Faye Wattleton
A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.
— Thomas Jefferson
The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
— Mohammed Morsi
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
— George Bernard Shaw
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.
— Thomas Paine