Ziad Doueiri Quotes

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

Grasp Revolution

And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

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

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

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.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The National Revolution has begun.

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.

Across all the globe there harshly blow the winds of change

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

Revolution is a transfer of property from class to class.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who knows what's going to happen in the next few decades, especially with the women's revolution.