Monday 15 July 2013

Revolution - Quotes

A constitution imperilled justifies revolution. - Edward Counsel

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. - Thomas Jefferson

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. - Mao ZeDong

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own. - Rudolf Arnheim

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

Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is a relay of revolutions. - Saul Alinsky

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy. - Jean Genet

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. - Aristotle

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly. - Vladimir Lenin

Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra-conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed. - Horace Mann

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? - E. H. Chapin

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. - Wyndham Lewis

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another. - John Updike

Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. - George Bernard Shaw

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. - Norman Mailer

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder. - George Bernard Shaw

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. - Charles Bukowski

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. - Richelle Mead

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. - Aung San Suu Kyi

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. - Mao ZeDong

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

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. - Yevgeny Zamyatin

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. - Vladimir Lenin

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