Revolution Quotes

Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is pre...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political w...

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on...

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, i...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to st...

Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come wi...

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see ...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets ...

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--arti...

Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...

You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it ...

The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsi...

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is...

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. R...

The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip i...

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with desti...

Darks drifts covered the horizon. A strange shadow approaching nearer and nearer, was spreading litt...

At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its p...

Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, the...

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitio...

Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or o...

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here ...

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing:...

While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so m...

At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later ...

The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abru...

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and d...

All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its sto...

In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come,...

Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are ...

He was Antinous, wild. You would have said, seeing the thoughtful reflection of his eye, that he had...

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the gover...

In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole t...

Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.

Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto ver...

Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is th...

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set...

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who n...

Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all materi...

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take co...

There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how ...

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but resto...

It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achiev...

Let me outline briefly as I can what seem to me the characteristics of these opposite kinds of mind....

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and fin...

For twenty-five years I've been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this w...

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motiv...

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never...

All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...

If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he ...

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantag...

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinit...

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken c...

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to ye...

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in e...

Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward...

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps w...

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing ...

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade....

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence pr...

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow ...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's bo...

What makes the prospect of death distinctive in the modern age is the background of permanent techno...

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...

Are you like, a crazy person?I’m quite sure they will say so.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud...

Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for ever...

In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though...

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always goin...

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly inc...

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so c...