Revolution Quotes

“Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.”
 Mao Tse-Tung

“Revolutions never go backwards”
~UnKnown

“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they’ve never had to present a working model”
 Charles F. Kettering

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost.
~Wellington

 

“The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you’ll get action.”
― Malcolm X

“You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it’s hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.”
― Malcolm X

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
― Arundhati Roy,


Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
~Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.”
― Abbie Hoffman

All men recognize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, or to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
~Henry David Thoreau

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
~John Adams

“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
 Daisaku Ikeda

“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
 Angela Davis

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.
~Antoine Saint-Just

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
~Henry Clay

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
― Fidel Castro

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre




“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
 Abbie Hoffman

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
~Calvin Coolidge

“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”
 Fidel Castro

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
~La Rochefoucauld

“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
 Hugo Black

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
~Blaise Pascal

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”
― Huey P. Newton

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
― Bertrand Russell

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
 G. K. Chesterton

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind”
 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!”
― Albert Einstein

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
~Bertrand de Jouvenel

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“A little rebellion is a good thing. ”
― Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
 William James

“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anaïs Nin

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…build(ing) a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~Robert F. Kennedy

“You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker”
― Malcolm X

“Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream”
 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
~John V. Lindsay

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
~Frederick Douglass

“Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
~Oscar Wilde quotes

“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
― Bob Marley

“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
 Kurt Tucholsky

“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
― Richelle Mead

The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
 Martin Luther King, Jr

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
― Malcolm X

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao Tse-Tung

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