Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.
Rebecca MacKinnon
RevolutionAmericanPrintingHeroes
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.
Noam Chomsky
HopeRevolutionHimConscienceThose
In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
Campbell Brown
BookRevolutionAmericanNewTop
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
Steven Levy
WorldIndustrial RevolutionRevolution
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.
Paul Craig Roberts
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The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.
Reza Aslan
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
RevolutionInterestingPlagueLike
Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.
Simon Mainwaring
BusinessTechnologyRevolutionEarly
Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.
Neel Mukherjee
WorkBusinessRestRevolutionWealth
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
LifeWomanManWorldRevolutionEnd
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
Daisaku Ikeda
ChangeGreatSocietyRevolutionHelp
Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.
Shirin Ebadi
PowerTimePeopleRevolutionFocused
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.
Marc Andreessen
RevolutionSoftwareNeedComing
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
Marquis de Lafayette
RevolutionAuthorityDivisionEmpire
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
Ban Ki-moon
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The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids.
Tom Reiss
HeartMomentRevolutionAmericanWay
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
Lawrence Lessig
RevolutionConsequencesTechnological
The American revolution not only cost Britain the 13 colonies but also forced it to rethink the slave trade and slavery, and influenced its power relations in Asia and the Pacific.
Linda Colley
PowerSlaveryRevolutionAmerican
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
Robert Dallek
SonSympathyRevolutionFirstWould
I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
Jaden Smith
SocietyRevolutionFeelPlaceWay
The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.
Leon Trotsky
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The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
Robyn Davidson
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During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
Gene Luen Yang
CultureRevolutionSenseChinese
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
Klaus Fuchs
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