The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history.
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
It's typical at Real Madrid that we often seem to be going through a revolution.
We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.
Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.
We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
The seed of revolution is repression.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
