Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Reynolds

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

George Washington

We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

George Washington

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

George Orwell

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

Samuel Adams

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

Joe Hill

Don't mourn, Organise

Frank Chodorov

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Robert Bourassa

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

Tom Metzger

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Tom Hanks

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

Kathe Kollwitz

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

Nathan Myhrvold

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Mary Ritter Beard

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Noam Chomsky

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Mohammad Khatami

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

John Wayne

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

Martin Luther

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

Paulo Freire

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

John Adams

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Jack Welch

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Naomi Wolf

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Northrop Frye

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Johann Most

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Johann Most

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Octavio Paz

It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

Simone Weil

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

Terry Tempest Williams

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.