Quotes of Revolution - somelinesforyou

“ The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ”

- Abbie Hoffman

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ Revolution is not a onetime event. ”

- Audre Lorde

“ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ”

- Stephen Jay Gould

“ Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ 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

“ 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

“ We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. ”

- Samuel Bonom

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

- Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

“ The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ”

- Germaine Greer

“ Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. ”

- Mariano Azuela

“ Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ”

- Heinrich Heine

“ Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. ”

- Paul Williamson

“ Revolutions are not made, they come. ”

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Fidel Castro

“ All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ”

- John Kenneth Galbraith

“ If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. ”

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“ 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

“ The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. ”

- Aristotle

“ Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ”

- Franz Kafka

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

- Marilyn Ferguson

“ Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ”

- Paul Gauguin
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