Revolution Quotes

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
-Aristotle

"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
-Henry Ford

"Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
-Germaine Greer

"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

"The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
-Fidel Castro

"Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by."
-Peter Kropotkin

"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

"What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope?What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk's head?"
-Robinson Jeffers

"Revolution is not a onetime event."
-Audre Lorde

"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
-John Morley

"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

"Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!"
-Jonathan Larson

"The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use."
-Arthur Koestler

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
-George Orwell

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
-George Orwell

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."
-John F. Kennedy

"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

"A revolution in kindness."
-Anita Roddick

"...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense."
-John Adams

"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."
-John Adams

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
-Hannah Arendt

"If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution."
-Emma Goldman

"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
-Isaiah Berlin

"The revolution of electronics hasn't taken away the good smell of books. It's really hopeful to see."
-Robin Wright

"With the onset of the aging demographic revolution, it is essential that the general public begin planning for their future care requirements. Unfortunately, most of us pay little attention to the cost of such care until we or our loved ones need it."
-Bill Novelli

"Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to give Kadafi credit for recognizing the existential threat posed to his rule and revolution by [Osama] bin Laden and Al Qaeda."
-Bruce Hoffman

"We are behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution."
-Mike Hayden

"Acton's role on the first day of the Revolution cannot be overstated because Captain Davis and the Acton Minutemen stepped up and volunteered to lead the charge against the British when other units wouldn't, No, I am not and I haven't a man that is afraid to go."
-Stephen Crosby