Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.
Ahmed Zewail
WomenFaithCultureWomanRevolution
On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
James Hansen
Industrial RevolutionRevolutionDawn
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
Michelle Alexander
ChangePoliceSocietyRevolutionFix
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
Dario Fo
LawWorldRevolutionThoughtLiberty
The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women.
Hugh Hefner
WomenRevolutionRealityViewPoint
The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt's toppling of Mubarak left them terrified - even one of the U.S.' best allies in the region could fall.
Mona Eltahawy
FearBestRevolutionFallEgypt
I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.
Michael Korda
RevolutionLeftOxfordHavingFought
To the developing world, Cuba has been a symbol of sovereignty and resistance and a supporter of revolution - for good or bad. From the Missile Crisis to the anti-apartheid movement, from the Kennedys to Obama era, this small island has put itself at the center of world events.
Ben Rhodes
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It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Henry Ward Beecher
WorkPeopleRevolutionWorryWhich
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
Mohammed Morsi
GreatI AmRevolutionPeacefulFirst
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
Ziggy Marley
WorkFightPeopleRevolutionBetter
The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
PoliticsGovernmentRevolutionPolicy
Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.
Judith Butler
RevolutionLateMilitaryMovement
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis
HopeShoppingRevolutionPolitical
You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.
Gil Scott-Heron
LightMovingRevolutionDirection
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
Valentino Garavani
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After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
Gore Vidal
PowerMoneyWorldRevolutionThree
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
Derek Walcott
GreatTimePeopleRevolutionCrisis
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
Salman Rushdie
GovernmentRevolutionInvolvedWest
Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.
George Papandreou
RevolutionPersonalEveryoneOutOwn
Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!
Deborah Copaken Kogan
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As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.
Ralph Merkle
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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
Ernest Mandel
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