Revolution Quotes

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Scottish Proverb

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

David Harris

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Fidel Castro

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Eugene Debs

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Toni Cade Bambara

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

Karl Marx

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!

Karl Marx

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann von Goethe

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Will Rogers

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward George BulwerLytton, (spe

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem, ruse, illegal method, to be determined to conceal the truth, for the sole purpose of accomplishing, despite everything, the communist task'.

Albert Camus

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guiz

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro, Speech on the 2nd

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Victor Hugo