Revolution Quotes - Page 32

• Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Tomorrow, Transformation, Live In The Present

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2013). “The first and last freedom”, p.38, Rajpal & Sons

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• Rugby backs can be identified because they generally have clean jerseys and identifiable partings in their hair... come the revolution the backs will be the first to be lined up against the wall and shot for living parasitically off the work of others.

  Peter FitzSimons

  Wall, Hair, Firsts

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• New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

  Freeman Dyson

  Old Things, Entrepreneur, Tools

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• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  H. Rap Brown

  Talking, Eras, Caught

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• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Bob Schaffer

  Loyalty, Military, Division

  "Go Orange!". National Review Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Financial, Century, Ends

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

  Scott D. Cook

  Thinking, Ideas, Company

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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• The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

  C. L. R. James

  Firsts, Action, Scene

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• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Technology, Age, Industrialization

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  Sally Kirkland

  New York, Activism, Factors

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• You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

  Ernest Mandel

  Trying, Socialist

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Reality, Ideas

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• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Space

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distributing renewable energies, they're measuring politics in terms of a struggle between centralized, hierarchical, top-down and closed and proprietary, versus distributed, open, collaborative, transparent. This shift, from hierarchical to lateral power, is going to change the way we live, the way we educate our children, and the way we govern the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Love, Children, Struggle

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• 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.

  Frank Knight

  Struggle, Mean, Moral

  Frank Hyneman Knight, Hubert Bonner (1947). “Freedom and reform: essays in economics and social philosophy”

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• The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

  Bob Schaffer

  Tired, Government, Color

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

  Edmund Wilson

  Truth, Stress, Play

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Political, Tactics

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Car

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and liberty; in proportion to the solemnity of acts, proclaiming the will authenticated by the seal of the people, the only earthly source of authority, ought to be the vigilance with which they are guarded by every citizen in private life, and the circumspection with which they are executed by every citizen in public trust.

  James Madison

  People, Liberty, Citizens

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• If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, America

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

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• Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Years, Selfishness

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• The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

  Robert Jastrow

  Science, Light, Essence

  Robert Jastrow (1990). “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration--Tomorrow and Beyond”, Bantam

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• Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

  Johann Most

  Mean, Writing, Deeds

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• This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, War, Hippie

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