Revolution Quotes - Page 40

• This is the consciousness revolution,
  You got the right to think,
  Don't think about it just do it

  Eyedea

  Thinking, Consciousness, Just Do It

  Song: â?¦powdered Water Too

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• The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Aka, Long

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• This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

  Hamid Dabashi

  Rights, Movement, Civil Rights

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• Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

  Malcolm X

  Coffee, Land, Cups

  Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

  Malcolm X

  Singing, Overcoming, Bloodshed

  Malcolm X (1992). “Malcolm X Speaks Out”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.

  Marya Mannes

  Daughter, Orchids, Ribbons

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• If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Father, Home

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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• 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

  Sea, Upset, Earth

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• The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

  T. S. Eliot

  Depressing, Mediocrity, Pressure

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Christianity and Culture”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

  George Will

  Important, Germany, France

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

  Paul Valery

  Nerves, Looks, Lions

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• Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

  Andre Gide

  Party, Victory, May

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

  Rita Mae Brown

  America, Used, Pantyhose

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• Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  West, Illusion, Consideration

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• To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Reality, Overcoming

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• The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

  Germaine Greer

  Needs, Disappear, Militancy

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

  Kabir

  Men, Order, Progress

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• The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Men, Revolt

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• Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

  Alan Greenspan

  Retrospect

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• In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Opinion, Exception

  John Stuart Mill (1867). “On Liberty by John Stuart Mill”, p.27

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

  John Mason Brown

  Blood, Land, Civil War

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• Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

  John Cage

  Music, Fighting, Hands

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• Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

  Lillian Hellman

  People, Rebel, Unions

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