quotations about revolution
Revolutions are not isolated, sporadic events. Over the millennium, their power and ideas have been propagated through poems, newspapers, books and also music.
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"Someone has made a brilliant dubstep mix of Kanhaiya's sloganeering", Hindustan Times, February 23, 2016
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
Politics
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world, you want to blow it up.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Dirty Hands
A small revolution was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed.
J. G. BALLARD
Millennium People
Beauty goes to her address
She shuts the door and climbs the stairs
And when she sleeps the revolution grows
DAVID BYRNE
"The Revolution"
Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.
DAVID MITCHELL
Cloud Atlas
A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order
In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
"On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx"
Revolutions are always more exciting than baby steps.
PHILIP BUMP
"Democrats may have an enthusiasm problem in 2016", Washington Post, February 10, 2016
Revolutions are not planned events. They just come when conditions are ripe. Dissatisfied and unhappy people deciding to mass up.
ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS
"Revolutionary government, palace coup and democratic options", The Manila Times, November 4, 2017
The moving spirits of revolutions are deemed holy or unholy in proportion as the principle underlying them is beneficial or wicked.
VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR
The Volcano; Or, The First War of Indian Independence
Revolutions are never easy, especially when they hinge on getting Republicans to change their minds.
DAVID NIR
"Imagine Bernie Sanders wins the White House. Then What?", Daily Kos, February 21, 2016
The peoples' revolution ... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood
Revolution is the industry of young men.
CRAIG JOHNSON
The Cold Dish
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Anarchism and Other Essays
Revolution sounds very romantic, you know, but it ain't. it's blood and guts and madness; it's little kids killed who get in the way, it's little kids who don't understand what the f**k is going on. it's your whore, your wife ripped in the belly with a bayonet and then raped in the a** while you watch. it's men torturing men who used to laugh at Mickey Mouse cartoons.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
They never fail who die
In a great cause: the block may soak their gore:
Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs
Be strung to city gates and castle walls--
But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years
Elapse, and others share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world at last to Freedom.
LORD BYRON
Marino Faliero