You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
5G goes beyond the regular operator business; it's a business revolution.
Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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.
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Neck-down comedy was no longer valid after the 1980s alternative comedy revolution. Everything became about the cerebral. And with that came positive things - it helped get rid of some of the sexism and homophobia - but it also meant a lot of physical comedy was lost.
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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.
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.