Revolution Quotes - Page 24

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The Earth is the Lord. Everybody walks on the earth. And nobody respects the Earth. Everybody who walks on the earth, shits on the Earth. Spits on the Earth. Don't respect the Earth. So the Earth didn't like it. So the Earth call for a revolution. And the earth is fighting back. The Earth call for a revolution. The Earth call for justice. And the Earth get justice. 'Cause the Earth release ganja. The Earth release herbs.

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

Don't mourn, Organise

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.