Revolution Quotes

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

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

Every generation needs a new revolution.

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

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William Henry Seward

Revolutions are not made; they come.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

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.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
Bill Hicks

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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

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.







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