“I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.” MenLittlesPhilosophyJoySpiritSocialStarsWaterCommunityDarknessGenerationsAirRocksRevolutionProudOne DaySkinsRoundsHungerFolksWanderEmpiresLabourMetalsGrainSunlightBlindnessLight And DarknessLight And DarkFlickerSwarmsLuciditySocial RevolutionOlafIntermittent Book:To the End of Time Source: To the End of Time
“I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.” PoliticalFoundRocksRevolutionSexualityActivismEngagedRock N RollPolitical Activism Author:Patti Smith
“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.” PeopleKidsAgeSituationBreakClearRocksRevolutionNeededLoudRock And RollRepressionBreak ThroughUnfeeling Author:John Lennon
“What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.” WorldWantImportantDifferentWholeGirlRocksRevolutionBandStructureRadicalism Author:Kathleen Hanna
“If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.” IfsKnowsImportantEnoughStarsAttentionRocksRevolutionSmartPopulationPay AttentionIndigenousRock StarCubaCubanCuban Revolution Author:Steven Soderbergh
“The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.” YearsLittlesEndsSexBehindsHappenedRocksRevolutionHappeningsExcitingMusicalDecadesTeenagerPunkDiscovering1960sPunk RockPistolsDiscoGlamSex PistolsGlam Rock Author:Boy George
“The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.” RocksRevolutionVictoryElementsMassBuiltFinals Author:Rosa Luxemburg
“I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!” TwoNightRocksRevolutionPoundsPunkRiotPunk Rock Author:Caitlin Moran
“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.” Has BeensLawScienceNatureEconomySeaSubjectsRocksMovementChangedRevolutionRiversDirectContinentsUniformsGlobes Book:Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth Source: Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth