top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Revolution quotes
"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."
"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."
"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."
"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
Explore more quotes by William Godwin
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
"The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation."
"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
"But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference."
bottom of page