Revolution Quotes - Page 14

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

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

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.