Ian Hacking Quotes

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutions are always verbose.

In order to evaluate revolutions and revolutionaries, one needs to observe them close up but judge the them at a distance.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

I was born in revolution.

We can neither export revolution nor can the United States prevent it.

Revolutions are always the deepest memories of a people

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State

History is a relay of revolutions

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.