Quotes About Revolution

the day of the publication of the true literature of the American body will be day of Revolution the revolution of the sexy lamb

Death which is the mother of the universe!—Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky—no revolution might destroy that maidenhood

fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist

The great growling engine of change – technology.

Revolution - In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.

We're plotting reformation of life as we know it," I replied, somewhat flippantly. "Oh, is that all?" she teased. "Why not start with breakfast?

All too often when we topple something hateful, rather than breaking it and starting afresh, we raise ourselves up in its place.

if enough people got angry enough, they could change things. Now anger was the answer to everything.

He always told me that to change the world you must first burn it down.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." Karl Marx

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up!

Sometimes,' he murmured, 'the only way to improve something is to destroy it, so it can be rebuilt better. Sometimes, to change the world, we must first burn it down.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

This is a head-warping, mind-opening, brain-cramping concept. To live it is to transform your life as never before.

Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.

The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.

The web, by contrast, is "less than ten thousand days old.

Nada tiene que quedarse como está. Si un dogma no funciona, por muy fuerte e inamovible que parezca, siempre puede uno desecharlo y plantear algo distinto.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Alle Revolutionselemente, alles Menschheitsempörende, was sie wo anders in Großen haben, das haben wir Krähwinkler in Kleinen. Wir haben ein absolutes Tyrannerl, unsern Bürgermeister, wir haben ein unverantwortliches Ministeriumerl, ein Bureaukratieerl, ein Censurerl, Stadtschulderln weit über unsere Kräfterln, also müssen wir auch ein Revolutionerl und durch's Revolutionerl ein Constitutionerl und ein Freyheiterl krieg'n.

Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.