Revolution Quotes
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
Democracy is a system were ignorants choose a government, comunism is a system where ignorants govern themselves.
But here's how it works: when the world has told you once too often and once and for all that you are nothing nothing nothing then you come to the conclusion that others may be nothing too.
Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.
She had shown him by her independence how it was only fear that held people together. The fear of being alone and the fear of being different.
Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.
I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.
The amazing thing is nobody has to believe in anything all they have to do is be wiling to try.
Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.
When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.
We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free
Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Then close the fingers on your hand.
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.
Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.
Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.
Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.
I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.
Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.
If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years.
There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification.
We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.
The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections
A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack
The dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons
Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.
If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!