- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution Quotes
Change, and the forces trying to hold it back.
This page mixes creative and political senses of revolution - a filmmaker reflecting on risky projects, and the observation that art often moves ahead of political revolution itself. See American Revolution.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Get
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There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
- Energy
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It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.
- Luxury
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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.
- Big
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When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.
- Europe
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.
- Constitute
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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.
- Liberty
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Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The computer industry began with home-brew boxes that everyone had to program for themselves, but that was a huge hassle. The computer revolution didn't explode until the first Macintosh arrived, with its point-and-click simplicity.
- Blood
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Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
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- Nov 07, 2020