On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. – James Hansen
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. – Irving Babbitt
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. – Irving Babbitt
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected. – Herman Gorter
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. – Jacqueline Novogratz
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity. – James Buchan
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants. – Herman Gorter
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. – Jean Genet
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. – Joseph Conrad
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. – Jairam Ramesh
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. – Ian Hamilton Finlay
I can’t let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive. – Ian Somerhalder
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines. – Jerry Saltz
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
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. – Johan Huizinga
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. – John Quincy Adams
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. – Archie Shepp
I’m kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else. – Jesse Ventura
The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data. – Jay Samit
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. – Agnes Smedley
Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of ‘variation’ much as if measure lengths were concrete musical ‘material.’ – Brian Ferneyhough
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus
If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone. – Bill Gates
Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing. – Che Guevara
Superficial pop will always exist – there’ve always been Fabians – but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there’s a revolution going on in music. – Bonnie Raitt
