Quotes about Revolution
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
— Victor Hugo
One word is spoken aloud and the world changes.
— Alice Hoffman
continuing to love with depth and tenderness honors revolution at its highest success.
— Alice Walker
Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
— Edmund Burke
The communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be obtained only by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
— Anonymous
Overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.
— Anonymous
Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.
— Anonymous
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
— Edmund Burke
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected ... before a drop of blood was shed.
— John Adams
The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.
— John Adams