As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
A family. . . is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.
Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.
The most seditious is the most cowardly.
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.
The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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.