For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.
Mona Eltahawy
RevolutionEnvyYearsOutcomeCoup
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
Bela Bartok
ArtRevolutionSlowFastEvolution
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
Howard Fast
SocialismRevolutionThoughtAmerican
In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.
Lucy Powell
TechnologyWorldRevolutionNew
The world is going on a high-speed connection; the Arab revolution is still dial-up. So we have to give it a little time to download. Regimes come and go, but art endures.
Ziad Doueiri
TimeArtWorldRevolutionConnection
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
Hilary Mantel
RevolutionChooseWriteWhoFrench
In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).
Liu Xiaobo
LifeCollegeRevolutionMy LifeMore
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
PoliticsHealingRevolutionPresent
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.
Henry Rollins
RevolutionYouWillListenRage
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
RevolutionGenerationYearsOnly
President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
Ted Cruz
RevolutionStrongConservativeTaxes
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer
RevolutionOppressedFestival
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.
Diana Gabaldon
SuccessTimeRevolutionAmericanTwo
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Salvador Dali
RevolutionRememberRightAlways
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
RevolutionDictatorshipOrderMakes
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Dorothy Day
HeartChallengeDayStartRevolution
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
Sally Kirkland
New YorkRevolutionNewActivism
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.
Ernst Toller
RevolutionSituationBecomeSeeThen
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
Christian Louboutin
WorkLunchRevolutionYouI Can
Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
P. J. O'Rourke
ShoesUglyPeopleRevolutionRich
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Eric Hobsbawm
RevolutionWithoutSocialNecessary
I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans.
Clive Cussler
WarRevolutionYouLateBornKid
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
RevolutionIdeaFoundWhichBayonets
The self-driving car revolution was kicked off by The 'DARPA' Grand Challenge to make an autonomous car traverse 132 mi. of a desert.
Fred Ehrsam
CarChallengeDesertRevolutionOff
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