Judah Philip Benjamin Quotes
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It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort...
than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.
- Judah Philip Benjamin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody
in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution
is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
- Alvin Toffler

America's present need is not heroics but healing;
not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding

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.
- Marianne Williamson

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
- Fidel Castro

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
- Scott Cook

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution.
It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
- Vladimir Lenin

The digital revolution is far more significant than
the invention of writing or even of printing.
- Douglas Engelbart

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution...
revolution is but thought carried into action.
- Emma Goldman

In the last five or six thousand years,
empires one after another have arisen,
waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal
revolution or attack from without.
- John Boyd Orr

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the
best school for the proletariat.
- Rosa Luxemburg

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to
get everyone to pay their taxes.
- Romano Prodi

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution
and not just a process of evolution.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Industrialization based on machinery,
already referred to as a characteristic of our age,
is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
- Emily Greene Balch

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.
- Robert Bourassa

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold,
there were all kinds of young musicians,
talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.
- Gunther Schuller

It's not the work which kills people,
it's the worry.
It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
- Henry Ward Beecher

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological,
and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
- Lawrence Lessig

Every revolution has its counterrevolution -
that is a sign the revolution is for real.
- C. Wright Mills

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.
- Nick Clooney

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution
wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
- Denis Leary

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
- Georg Buchner

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
- Ernest Mandel

Power is not a means, it is an end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
- George Orwell

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult
part to invent is the end.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose.
Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death.
It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
- H. G. Wells

And if there's any hope for America,
it lies in a revolution,
and if there's any hope for a revolution in America,
it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
- Phil Ochs

The international proletariat first appeared on the
scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century,
and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
- C. L. R. James

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution
every time a Labour Government is elected.
- Roy Jenkins

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.
- Marilyn Ferguson

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great
hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
- Heinrich Heine

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway,
digs his own grave.
- Georg Buchner

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning
of the industrial revolution,
we leaped for the mechanical things,
people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
- Andre Norton

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young.
The young always inherit the revolution.
- Huey Newton

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
- Bianca Jagger

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million
before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
- Norm Dicks

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
- Fred Hampton

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
- Garet Garrett

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top,
ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
- Ernest Mandel

The American Revolution was a beginning,
not a consummation.
- Woodrow Wilson

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
- Ernest Mandel

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution.
What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
- Karl Marx

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly
different from what we expected.
- Herman Gorter

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania,
but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic,
and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
- Nadia Comaneci

The American Revolution was, in fact,
a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
- Robert Trout

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
- Joseph Stalin

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent.
Only no-mind is original and radical.
Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.
The mind gives you a sort of stupor.
Burdened by the memories of the past,
burdened by the projections of the future,
you go on living - at the minimum.
You dont live at the maximum.
Your flame remains very dim.
Once you start dropping thoughts,
the dust that you have collected in the past,
the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young.
Your whole life becomes a flame,
and a flame without any smoke.
That is what awareness is.
- Osho

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections.
It really took until the digital film revolution came
along that I realized that I could do it myself.
- Harry Shearer

If today I stand here as a revolutionary,
it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
- Adolf Hitler

The day is coming when a single carrot,
freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
- Paul Cezanne

In art there are only fast or slow developments.
Essentially it is a matter of evolution,
not revolution.
- Bela Bartok

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

All civilization has from time to time become a thin
crust over a volcano of revolution.
- Henry Ellis

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
- Thomas Sankara

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
- Mikhail Bakunin

To love without role, without power plays,
is revolution.
- Rita Mae Brown

I began revolution with 82 men.
If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
- Fidel Castro

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy.
You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
- Fidel Castro

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology,
nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade.
It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
- Abbie Hoffman

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
- Constance Baker Motley

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection,
is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
- Francois Guizot

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
- Sally Kirkland

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.
You have to make it fall.
- Che Guevara

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
- Adlai Stevenson

The most important of all revolutions,
a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- Edmund Burke

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere
great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
- Irving Babbitt

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors.
These guys were involved in a revolution against the
mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
- Randall Terry

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means-
speech,
writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point -
to accelerate revolutionary development.
- Johann Most