Revolution Quotes

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.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about it...

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its ...

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. I...

Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would pe...

The last thing I want to tell you is this: in a real revolution—not a simple dynastic change or a me...

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the ...

I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my ...

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be...

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but ...

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as oft...

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the op...

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, ...

Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and...

We demand justice," Jeff says. "we don't have it, the world is a mess because of assholes who think ...

So it’s democracy versus capitalism at this point, friends, and we out on this frontier outpost of t...

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Ana...

For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role ...

We seek to uncoverbehind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale ref...

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie ...

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Mater...

The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated b...

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old...

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolu...

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a gov...

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honou...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into ...

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too...

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant...

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery;...

An army of the people is invincible!

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enem...

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as an...

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and...

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive...

In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one q...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and profe...

The development of the proletarian elite does not take place in an academic setting. Rather, it is b...

This is the way it ought to be!" said the Little Russian, returning. "Because, mark you, mother dear...

Those——"—here he flung out a terrible oath—"those people don't know what their blind hands are sowin...

They destroy lives with work. What for? They rob men of their lives. What for, I ask? My master—I lo...

She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of be...

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of indepen...

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings ...

Those who had fought for what they called the revolution maintained a great pride: the pride of bein...

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who ...

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed ...

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and ...

His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of fre...

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it...

Give me liberty or give me d