Revolution Quotes

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.

Revolution is not a onetime event.

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

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

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can`t.

The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

Revolution is not a dinner party.
Sun Yat-sen

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
Italo Calvino

Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
Che Guavara

I perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Anthony J. D\'Angelo

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

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.







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