Revolution Quotes - Page 11

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.

The revolution begins at home.

lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

One does not make revolutions by halves.

If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well. But none of that happens unless there's a political revolution. And it's not going to happen unless we deal with corporate control of the media.

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.