Revolution Quotes - Page 9

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

In the end [after the 1905 revolution], Russia gained nothing more than a breathing spell.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.