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Revolutions go not backward. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolutions are always verbose. -- Leon Trotsky
Revolutions are never peaceful. -- Malcolm X
Revolutions never go backwards. -- Wendell Phillips
Revolutions never go backward. -- William H. Seward
Revolutions are not made for export. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Revolutions are not made with rosewater. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. -- Karl Marx
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. -- Abraham Lincoln
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. -- Nicolas Gomez Davila
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. -- Alan Greenspan
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities. -- Peter Kropotkin
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. -- Pierre Boulez
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. -- Francois Duvalier
Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears. -- George Soros
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. -- Aristotle
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. -- Victor Hugo
Revolutions are not made by fate but by men. -- Jacob Bronowski
Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. -- Norman Mailer
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud. -- Aristotle
We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects. -- Ron Paul
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. -- William Godwin
Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. -- Malcolm X
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. -- Marjane Satrapi
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. -- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. -- Hannah Arendt
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress. -- Chester Himes
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea. -- Akbar Ganji
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. -- Kwame Nkrumah
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
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. -- Fernand Braudel
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
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
Acceptance is an active response to a temporary situation; surrender is a passive reaction to a situation that you think will last forever.-Personal Revolutions -- Oli Anderson
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. -- Victor Hugo
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action. -- Michael Parenti
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. -- Lee Harvey Oswald
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice -- Lee Harvey Oswald
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
Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. -- George Orwell
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. -- Wendell Phillips
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses. -- James Tiptree Jr.
There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions. -- Kevin Hearne
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
Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard. -- Nick Harkaway
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Revolutions are of no us;, it is necessary to work on transforming the brain: on sowing a different knowledge/awareness, on creating a new conscience, that is like a magic box full of brains. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them. -- Peter Kropotkin
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems. -- Malcolm X
Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are. -- Joseph Goebbels
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power. -- Mao Zedong
Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after. -- Marjane Satrapi
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Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize your life.. Do not conform to the emptiness, the sadness, breakdown, failure, weakness...instead REVOLUTIONIZE your life & CONQUER your circumstances. -- Mirtha Michelle
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed. -- Jean Jaures
Name me the final number, the highest, the greatest. But that's absurd! If the number of numbers is infinite, how can there be a final number? Then how can you speak of a final revolution? There is no final one. Revolutions are infinite. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize. -- Marilyn Ferguson
Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up. -- Gloria Steinem
History is a relay of revolutions. -- Saul Alinsky
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. -- Victor Hugo
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? -- Nicolas Chamfort
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. -- Gloria Steinem
All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. -- Vinoba Bhave
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. -- John Boyd Orr
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
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
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. -- John Polkinghorne
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. -- Jung Chang
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. -- David Chalmers
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting. -- Lupe Fiasco
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. -- Madeleine Albright
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. -- Paul Davies
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media. -- Ivan Krastev
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. -- Nancy Gibbs
In politics experiments means revolutions. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The powerful don't make revolutions -- Marge Piercy
All revolutions are violent revolutions. -- Paul Watson
Feminism is small revolutions, every day -- Manju Kapur
All revolutions devour their own children. -- Ernst Rohm
Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions. -- Clinton Rossiter
Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better. -- Gail Dines
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. -- Charles James Fox
The wind of revolutions is not tractable. -- Victor Hugo
I see only adaptations - not revolutions. -- Gordon Getty
Poverty is the mother of all revolutions -- Motsoko Pheko
One does not make revolutions by halves. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. -- Georges Jacques Danton
There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The more revolutions occur, the less things change. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions -- Victor Hugo
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished. -- Amelia Barr
Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense. -- Michio Kaku
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. -- Georges Jacques Danton
To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy. -- Louise Bogan
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. -- Hu Shih
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. -- Sonia Johnson
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. -- Millard Fillmore
Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through. -- Robbie Robertson
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. -- John Mortimer
The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along. -- H.W. Brands
A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose. -- Thomas Paine
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. -- Michael McFaul
The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears. -- Rob Brown
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable -- Albie Sachs
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. -- William H. Seward
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. -- Petra Kelly
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. -- Chuck D

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