I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

One can always debate questions back and forth.

It seemed to be inadmissible to give in on such a fundamental point. This would have meant that any one who would have wanted to be a terrorist could gain eventually their freedom thanks to another kidnapping.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

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.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

I was born in revolution.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.