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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. -- Ron Paul
A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. -- Christiane Amanpour
The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary. -- Jose Mujica
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people. -- Ziggy Marley
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. -- Hugo Black
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. -- Daisaku Ikeda
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools. -- Hu Shih
In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution. -- Lee Siegel
I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world. -- Navid Negahban
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers. -- Georges Cuvier
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. -- Simon Mainwaring
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
The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art. -- Octavio Paz
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. -- Mao Zedong
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
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
When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change. -- Wadah Khanfar
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement. -- Ambrose Bierce
The first revolution is when you change your mind -- Gil Scott-Heron
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man -- Benito Mussolini
Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less. -- Jack Welch
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. -- Ambrose Bierce
The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception. -- David Icke
Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages. -- Tim Cook
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. -- Gloria Steinem
Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution. -- Jaggi Vasudev
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. -- John Lennon
I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. -- Kelly Lynch
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. -- Eve Ensler
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. -- Emma Goldman
I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange. -- Meagan Earls
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
"I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution. -- Jaggi Vasudev
The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun. -- Russell Brand
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. -- Jean Sasson
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down. -- Matthew Weiner
A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. -- John F. Kennedy
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. -- Eric Hoffer
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time. -- Gary Shteyngart
They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change. -- Ron Paul
The revolution I was starting where I thought I could yell at 200 people in a bar every night and change the world didn't quite happen. -- Doug Stanhope
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. -- Louis D. Brandeis
That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself. -- Marilyn Manson
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. -- Wynton Marsalis
A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice. -- Seth Godin
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. -- Octavio Paz
Life's all about the revolution, isn't it? The one inside, I mean. You can't change history. You can't change the world. All you can ever change is yourself. -- Jennifer Donnelly
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James
You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded. -- Vashti Bunyan
We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament -- Edward Heath
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. -- W. Averell Harriman
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries -- Norman Borlaug
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. -- Norman Borlaug

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