Revolution Is Not A Dinner Party Quotes & Sayings

'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly. — Natalie Martinez

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. — Mao Zedong

England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on ... the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men ... who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product. — G.K. Chesterton

Revolution is not a dinner party. — Sun Yat-sen

A revolution is not a dinner party, nor a literary composition, nor painting nor embroidering. It cannot be done so delicately, so leisurely, so gentlemanly and gently, kindly, politely and modestly. Revolution is insurrection, the violent action of one class overthrowing the power of another. An agrarian revolution is a revolution by the peasantry to overthrow the power of the feudal landlord class. If the peasants do not apply great force, the power of the landlords, built up over thousands of years, can never be uprooted. — Mao Zedong

These years can be both manageable and meaningful - not a "long good-bye" as it's often described, but a "long hello. — Martha Stettinius

There is no hell or heaven for those who are in love, love is pure form of human beings, love is the wind which touches your heart when you are in pain. — Santosh Kalwar

No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be "happy" - once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy! — Rainer Maria Rilke

Artistic expressions of beauty provide the outlet for revelations from within. — Guy Lozier

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none. — Tatjana Soli

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs. — Ma Jun

He'd had a dog once, in that way he'd had everything in his childhood, ordinary but a lot less lasting. — Anna Quindlen

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Tse-tung

There is no need of spurs when the horse is running away. — Publilius Syrus