The Naxalite revolution – an ultra-left Maoist movement – in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of ‘The Lives of Others.’ – Neel Mukherjee
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public – the authorities show up and arrest everyone. – Evgeny Morozov
As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different. – Gary Hamel
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. – Eric Hobsbawm
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways. – David Liss
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. – Emily Greene Balch
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next. – George A. Romero
What I really can’t stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. – Doris Lessing
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. – Eugene Ionesco
What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done. – Edmund Morgan
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. – David Bohm
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. – Ernst Toller
I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded. – Fidel Castro
Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution. – Edmund Morgan
It’s the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance. – Elian Gonzalez
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything – of their land, of their jobs, everything. – Dominik Garcia-Lorido
Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either. – P. J. O’Rourke
During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture. – Gene Luen Yang
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. – Ernest Mandel
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. – Dario Fo
‘Dance Dance Revolution.’ That’s a lot of fun when you’re having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly. – Natalie Martinez
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. – Frederick Pollock
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. – Federica Montseny