“Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.” Has BeensPoliticsMillionsPowerRevolutionSixHundredEuropeEmpiresGreat Empires Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenYearsMatterDoneUseHandsMightThreeForceMy OwnWalksForgetMillionsPositionRevolutionKeysYears AgoPreparedSakeSettlingReasonableBe Prepared Author:Ernst Rohm
“The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.” PeopleHas BeensMillionsEffectsRevolutionComputerDecadesParadigmPersonal Computers Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.” NationsLibertyMillionsObjectsRevolutionUnexpectedRemarkableMidstUnbornMagnitudeAmerican Revolution Book:Works: with a life of the author Source: Works: with a life of the author
“What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.” PeopleEnoughHandsGovernmentPoliticalMillionsRevolutionStandingCampaignsBillionaireEnough Is EnoughPolitical Revolution Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.” FeelsYearsFightingNationsGoalUnitedMillionsRevolutionMonthsDecidedDecadesConquerHopeful Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“The reality is we that have a corrupt campaign finance system which separates the American people's needs and desires from what Congress is doing. So to my mind, what we have got to do is wage a political revolution where millions of people have given up on the political process, stand up and fight back, demand the government that represents us and not just a handful of campaign contribution - contributors.” PeopleNeedsMindRealityGovernmentPoliticalDesireFightingGivenProcessMillionsRevolutionDemandCongressCampaignsFinanceContributionHandfulGiven UpContributorsCampaign FinancePolitical RevolutionCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.” PeopleNeedsTogetherBlackMillionsImpossibleRevolutionUnityViolentBlack PeopleComing Together Author:Muhammad Ali
“I am extraordinarily proud of the campaign that we ran. The issues that we raised, the fact that we got 13 million Americans to vote for a political revolution.” FactsPoliticalMillionsIssuesRevolutionProudVoteRaisedCampaignsRanPolitical Revolution Author:Bernie Sanders
“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, not just that China and Russia, after all that revolution, have become capitalist economies, not just that the working class has been ruined in the United States and its unions dismantled, not just that Greece has been brought to its knees, or that Cuba will soon be assimilated into the free market - it is also that the language of the Left, the discourse of the Left, has been marginalised and is sought to be eradicated.” PeopleHas BeensStatesTodayLeftLanguageUnitedClassMillionsUnited StatesEconomyRevolutionTragedyUnionsIraqChinaRussiaKneesIranCommunistAfghanistanVietnamCapitalistSocialistWorking ClassDiscourseRuinedFree MarketGreeceIndonesiaCubaCapitalist Economy Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.” ThinkingYearsLongMillionsPlanetsRevolutionLong TimeAriseEvolveRebellionShort Lived Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.” MenGivingWritingKindChildrenReasonHappensYoungGirlWalksVisionMillionsLaughingJourneyStrangeRevolutionPrayingWalkingMountainCreaturesEternalGladWanderUnexpectedEmsNo ReasonOld ManBe KindHikingTrekkingStrollingSaunteringLiving CreaturesWandering AroundWriting PoemsDharma Bums Author:Gary Snyder
“Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Beside, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of Nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.” PeopleCountryFightingThreeForceNationsCausesLibertyEnemyDestinyMillionsRevolutionHolyBattleRaisesInvincibleAmerican RevolutionRaise Up Author:Patrick Henry
“If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: 'Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.'” PeopleIfsMenTodayCausesMillionsHappenedRevolutionForgottenRepeats Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)” KindSpiritualWaitingLinesVisionMillionsRevolutionIllnessMental IllnessDawnNationalismGatesFlavorVansBreakthroughHurricanesUtopianPipersCholesterolPlathEdgar Allen Author:Tim Dorsey
“Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.” PeopleGivingMayCharacterRealitySeemsActionBeautifulDesirePoorPovertyMillionsWrittenRevolutionPaperMarkGood ThingsChinaSocialismCommunismCharacteristicsBad ThingsBlankSheetsOutstandingBeautiful Picture Author:Mao Zedong
“It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?” YearsMindIdeasScienceTermNatureHistoryMillionsForeverDoubtHard WorkRevolutionBearsEternalMouthsEternityDifficultyInstantProportionRemarkableRejectsCyclesContemplatingDefinitePettyHesitationChronicles Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope