Revolution Quotes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

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

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

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

Remove yourself, sir!

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

To die hating them, that was freedom

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!

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

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity.The human spirit then dies and the animal in us returns.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?""The outside world may want you, " he replied.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

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

Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty!

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

What a revolution in her ideas!

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

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

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

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

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

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

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 government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.

In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.

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

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

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

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

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

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

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

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

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

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

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.