Revolution Quotes

The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.

Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderat...

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think,...

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patch...

So how do the people resist unjust authority, which, we all agree, they must and should do and have ...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed.As Seneca warned Nero: No matter ho...

Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to es...

They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient m...

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to en...

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must ...

No, there's a group of hardened, fossilised men opposed by fresh young revolutionaries as John Butte...

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution whi...

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by for...

If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, the...

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ...

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awa...

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants a...

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that ...

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

No party has renounced the right to armed resistance, in certain circumstances without lying

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social...

Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural de...

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...

The risen Christ! Once morefaith is upon us, a jubilant brief keeningwith respite:Obedience, bitter ...

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. ...

Big Brother is watching you.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a re...

But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a min...

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought,...

The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling th...

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded mass...

Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. E...

To die hating them, that was freedom

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the ...

If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from ...

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less...

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddl...

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a ...

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I reco...

They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of...

There was an undoubted affinity in his mind between the two great passions of his life: revolution a...

He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – p...

The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man eith...

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

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law i...

O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world runnin...

Ok I'm not so smart I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running and i...

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey th...

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start...

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poiso...

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent rev...

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the mo...

But this inglorious revolution wasn't for me. I didn't want a sex shop in every town.

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have a...

The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sec...

The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it...

There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"...

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations...

What a revolution in her ideas!

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form,...

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, wh...

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a coloni...

So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food t...

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately...

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens o...

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the pri...

Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make ...

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.