There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.