My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
Dara Khosrowshahi
FamilyGreatOpportunitiesRevolution
It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation.
Hugh Hefner
WomenRevolutionThinkBeenWho
While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.
Mona Eltahawy
PatienceRevolutionMilitaryRule
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
PowerRevolutionReformTransfer
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
Edwidge Danticat
MoneyPeopleFreeRevolutionAmerica
You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.
Howard Rheingold
Industrial RevolutionRevolutionYou
What happened in the region in the last 30 years is not the Middle East. After the Iranian revolution in 1979, people wanted to copy this model in different countries; one of them is Saudi Arabia. We didn't know how to deal with it. And the problem spread all over the world.
Mohammad bin Salman
PeopleWorldRevolutionProblemCopy
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
Ziggy Marley
ChangeGoodPeopleRevolutionGroup
There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's inappropriate.
Hisham Matar
MeRevolutionThinkPlaceWriter
My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement.
Juan Felipe Herrera
MotherGreatCityChaosRevolution
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
Xi Jinping
RevolutionBetterPovertyYouSay
The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.
Gil Scott-Heron
RevolutionPlaceNobodyWillSee
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.
Jose Saramago
WorkBeginningRevolutionResultWay
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin
ChildrenGratefulRevolutionAlways
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer
WomenPathStruggleJoyRevolution
There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections.
DeRay Mckesson
ChallengeFightPeopleMeRevolution
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Sam Ervin
GreatRevolutionGrowAmericanHouse
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell
EqualityRevolutionWealthManners
It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.
Deanna Raybourn
ChangeEnergyRevolutionYearParis
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Ralph Adams Cram
RevolutionEndCenturyBeganTowards
At some point, I stumbled across my two main protagonists: William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered professor of history picked by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd's comely and rather wild daughter, Martha, who at first was enthralled with the so-called Nazi revolution.
Erik Larson
DaughterHistoryRevolutionAmerica
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
Christiane Amanpour
MistakeWorldRevolutionBecause
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra
RevolutionPoliticalEnlightenment
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
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