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[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.
Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!
Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.
The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.
Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
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.
Online is a revolution. The Internet is a revolution. And we should be revolutionary in the content that we put on it rather than derivative.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution?
The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
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.
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.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.
There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects.
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
I was an active participant in India's key economic reforms, including the third industrial revolution and now the fourth industrial revolution.
Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.