Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic human right. And that is spread around the world.
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.
It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.
I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.
The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all. . . the social struggle and strife would. . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity. . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.
What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
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.