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Revolution Quotes
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection."
153
"There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay."
128
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
73
"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution."
71
"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
67
"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."
62
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
61
"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary."
59
"You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying."
55
"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
55
"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
53
"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
52
"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."
51
"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
49
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
49
"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."
49
"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
49
"Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles."
48
"Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits.Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for youth, because it is the world of the fathers that is challenged. How exciting to enter into the age of maturity over the shattered ramparts of the adult world!"
47
"You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."
46
"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
46
"A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules."
46
"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
46
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery."
45
"Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed."
45
"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
44
"Great change doesn't come with official endorsement."
43
"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
42
"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
42
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
42
"Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass."
42
"The real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not."
42
"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
41
"I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive."
41
"Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution."
40
"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."
40
"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
40
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
39
"Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!."
38
"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
38
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
38
"Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power."
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