Quotes about Revolution

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

China's experience reminded me of the French and Russian revolutions. The pattern was the same: People seized control by promising to promote certain ideals. Once they had consolidated power, they abused it, casting aside their beliefs and brutalizing their fellow citizens. It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself.

Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

No revolution is executed like a ballet. Its steps and gestures are not neatly designed and precisely performed.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

The subject of revolution is ourselves, is our lives.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.