In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was ‘the son of a half-breed Indian squaw’ who would put opponents under the guillotine. – Robert Dallek
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. – Ralph Adams Cram
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. – Samuel P. Huntington
If you start with a great peach, there’s nothing you’re ever going to do that’s going to make it any better than when it comes off the tree. In 1970, that was a revolution. – Ruth Reichl
There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions. – Reed Hastings
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass. – Rebecca Solnit
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. – Salman Rushdie
Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution. – Rebecca MacKinnon
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. – Stephen Sondheim
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. – Stephen Gardiner
India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies… But it is India that’s now undergoing its own revolution. – Sundar Pichai
When there’s a revolution in Egypt, you can’t really get depressed about not knowing what happens after you die. When there are millions out on the streets, that’s not the time to start panicking about contracting swine flu. – Sayed Kashua
The Islamic Revolution of Iran has been killing Americans, hundreds of Americans, for 35 years in Iraq and Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. – Tom Cotton
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers. – Tom Peters
Americans should be ashamed of how aflutter they get about Downton Abbey – it’s unpatriotic. I seem to remember we fought a revolution so as not to put up with this nonsense, where notions of station are so unforgiving that upper and lower echelons are practically different species. – Steve Erickson
What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. – Sean Parker
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. – Steven Levy
It’s the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity. – Vint Cerf
My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair. – Yanis Varoufakis
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution… In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. – William Hamilton
The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century – and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids. – Tom Reiss
