Quotes of: American-revolution Keyword

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Malcolm X

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

P. J. O'Rourke

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Irving Babbitt

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

Hugo Chavez

Come the revolution, it'll probably be a good idea to stop saying 'Come the revolution.

John Alejandro King

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

George Orwell

American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the cour...

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing potatoes and onions on a piece of cardboard on the ground. Huck [Finn] may have been right that a 'barrel of...

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009

Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Eric Hoffer

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

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

Randall Terry

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

George Orwell

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

George Lucas

One eats, another watches; that's how revolutions are born.

Turkish

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Atıl, hareketsiz duran yaşam ölmeye eğilimlidir; eğer atıllık eksiksizse, ölüm gerçekleşmiş demektir.

The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it.

The State and Revolution

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Steven Levy

Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.

Shane Smith