Revolution Quotes
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right.
Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.
Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman's bed. Monarch's blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.
Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.
Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.
With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.
Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.
The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by men skilled in the art of ruling
They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the government
It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.
The world is in A major...the earth revolves in A major, a low A.
He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and revolution – and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other.
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.
So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.
Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.
In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt
Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.
It is unusual, ” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
Revolution?” Arno laughed. “What happened wasn’t a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled.
Every revolution begins with breakfast, ’ I quoted as they left. ‘Is this your revolution, Jaxon?
...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always going to beat weird-looking and needy.
It is very difficult to motivate people to revolution when they are extremely comfortable and well off.
Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence?
I'd internalized an astonishing amount of misogyny growing up that I didn't even recognize until my early twenties.
Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.
The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.