R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”
Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight
“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”
“Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.”
Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
“Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.”
“Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.”
“revolt is necessary for self-fulfilment—that when a child is born, its very cry is a revolt against the bondage in which it finds itself”
Source: An Indian Pilgrim
“Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.”
“Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.”
“Revolt is the right of the people”
“Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.”
Source: Alternating Current
“Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!”
“Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.”
Source: A One-man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press
“Revolted and offended, this child was fighting her mother in her head and did not even blink.”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.”
“revolusi adalah mimpi yang diciptakan oleh manusia
yang sedang ingin menukarkan dirinya menjadi tiran
(Perjalanan 9)”
Source: Perjalanan Sang Zaman
“Revolusi Perancis, mendudukkan harga manusia pada tempatnya yang tepat. Dengan hanya memandang manusia pada satu sisi, sisi penderitaan semata, orang akan kehilangan sisinya yang lain. Dari sisi penderitaan saja, yang datang pada kita hanya dendam, dendam semata...”
Source: Child of All Nations
“Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Revolution a day keeps corruption away.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.”
“Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.”
Source: Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union
“Revolution and selfishness are interrelated. Sometimes, it happens because the rulers are selfish; sometimes, the protesters are!”
“Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.”
“Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.”
Source: Collected Stories
“Revolution begins with one step”
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.”
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.”
“Revolution breeds destiny - no revolution no destiny.”
Source: Revolution Indomable
“Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.”
“Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.”
“Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.”
“revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow.”
Source: Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
“Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.”
“Revolution comes from the backbone of a person, not the barrel of a gun.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.”
“Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?”
“Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.”
“Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.”
Source: The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator
“Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'”
“Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?”
“Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.”
Source: The American Story
“Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.”
“Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.”
“Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.”
Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
“Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.”
“Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.”
Source: Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel
“Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.”
Source: Malcolm X Speaks Out
“Revolution is an act of accountability, violence is an act of selfishness.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.”
“Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres