Quotes of: Revolution Keyword

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Georges Cuvier

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

H. Rap Brown

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

Sara Sheridan

If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.

Life

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

Wyndham Lewis

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Kate Millett

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way ...

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

The novelist Dumas would one day borrow features from both of his uncles, not to mention his grandfather, the acknowledged scoundrel, in fashioning the central villains of The Count of Monte Cristo. Reading court documents detailing the sordid unrave...

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle...

History of the Russian Revolution

There are congregations on nearly every corner. I'm not sure we need more churches. What we need is a church. I say one church is better than fifty. I have tried to remove the plural form churches from my vocabulary, training myself to think of the c...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus giving freer rein to the passions which sweep a state into war and prevent it getting out—at any point ...

The Revolution in Warfare

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

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of 's, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view. In reality however, behind this outw...

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the bloody conflicts of two parties—both being mere incidents dependent upon many circumstances—but the sudden o...

Pyotr Kropotkin

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Yayoi Kusama

One did not love revolution. One embraced it with horror for the sake of the deliverance to follow.

The Silkweaver

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert

The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

Nathan Myhrvold