Revolution Quotes - Page 27

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

Revolutions never go backwards.

The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.