The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.
Revolutions are not made, they come.
If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
One does not make revolutions by halves.
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist. . . the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.
Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.
Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.