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“A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.”
“A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!”
“A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.”
Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion
“A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.”
“A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.”
“A revival means days of heaven upon earth.”
“A revival of religion presupposes a declension.”
Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion
“A revived spirit, a renewed soul.”
“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.”
“A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.”
Source: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
“A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution.”
“A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.”
“A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors”
“A revolution eats its heroes.”
Source: I Must Betray You
“A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It will be required sooner if we are to hold the risks of climate change to acceptable levels. The costs that we bear in making an early adjustment will bring forward, and reduce for future times, the costs of the inevitable eventual adjustment away from fossil fuels.”
“A revolution in itself is not a blessing.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4
“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”
“A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.”
“A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.”
“A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.”
Source: Leadership
“A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.”
“A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.”
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.”
“A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.”
“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
[Report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, May 9-10 1966]”
“A revolution is coming, one that awakens the African sleeping mind and breaks the shackles of modern-day slavery, harnessing the power of technology. Decentralization of the African mindset is happening.”
“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.”
“A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.”
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.”
Source: Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”
Source: Flying
“A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.”
“A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.”
Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
“A revolution of the heart in the silence of night where you have nothing to lose, for the full moon light loosens the chains of ages and answers unuttered questions that died on the lips.”
“A revolution of the soul carries a person to the peaks of ecstasy, for it is the noblest rebellion of the soul.”
“A revolution of the soul carries a person to the peaks of ecstasy, for this is the noblest rioting of the deep.”
“A revolution of the soul carries you to the peak of ecstasy, for this is the noblest rioting of the deep.”
“A revolution of the soul is the noblest rioting of the deep.”
“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”
“A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”
Source: Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
“A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.”
“A revolution that adores its dead but beats its living might as well not happen!”
Source: Yoldaşını Öldürmek
“A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.”
“A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.”
Source: The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
“A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.”
“A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution”
“A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.”