“But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.” PeopleYearsLittlesLostHoursAcceptingSpecialRevolutionGoes OnBlueSuitsIdiotUnbearableImpatienceAnother DayAnother Year Author:Neal Ascherson
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“It was a little harder when I first went to Egypt when I was 18 years old and being a white woman with a knapsack and in blue jeans. But again I was part of the rucksack revolution there was some grace there. You could put it that way. And confidence as well because I thought of myself as a poet. That was part of it. I was going for that, to have experiences to make the work.” WayYearsFirstsWellsLittlesWhiteGracePoetRevolutionHarderBlueEgyptJeansBlue Jeans Author:Anne Waldman
“We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.” NeedsWhiteHeardRevolutionIndiaInnovationBlueGreenHarnessFisheriesGreen Revolution Author:Narendra Modi
“The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.” WhiteRevolutionOfficeBlueWorkersReachingTransformedWorkplaceCollarsBlue CollarWhite CollarCubiclesBlue Collar Workers Author:Tom Peters
“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.” LongYoungWhiteFeetRevolutionRedBlueLipsNecksCheeksYoung WomenBasketsDrippingBourbon Book:Revolution Source: Revolution