Revolution Quotes - Page 22

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.