Quotes about Revolution

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.