Revolution Quotes

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Meagan Earls

The revolution in scientific ideas just mentioned is primarily logical. It is due to recognition that the very method of physical science, with its primary standard units of mass, space, and time, is concerned with measurements of relations of change, not with individuals as such.

John Dewey

Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Christopher Hitchens

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Theodore Parker

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.

Christopher Hitchens

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Victor Hugo

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Milovan Djilas

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo

All revolutions devour their own children.

Ernst Rohm

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Albert Camus

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Rebecca West

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.

Victor Hugo

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

Terry Pratchett

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

George Sand

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

Abraham Lincoln