Quotes About Revolution

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

In Russia the so-called dictatorship of the proletariat has not led to Socialism, but to the domination of a new bureaucracy over the proletariat and the whole people.

We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today's third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation .

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Society must increasingly become polarized between a shrinking capitalist class and a massive proletariat that suffers worsening misery. A crisis point will arrive when this cannot continue and revolution must occur.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

It is characteristic of the radical that he thinks of power as a force for good—so long as the power falls into his hands. In the name of liberty, the French and Russian revolutionaries abolished the old restraints upon power; but power cannot be abolished; it always finds its way into someone's hands. That power which the revolutionaries had thought oppressive in the hands of the old regime became many times as tyrannical in the hands of the radical new masters of the state.

This book tells the story of that moment in time. It is a story of high adventure set during the age of exploration—when Francis Drake, Henry Hudson, and Captain John Smith were expanding the boundaries of the world, and Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Galileo, Descartes, Mercator, Vermeer, Harvey, and Bacon were revolutionizing human thought and expression.

What has the third estate been until now? Nothing. What should it be? Everything. What does it aim to become? Something.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed old orders into crisis...

Talpra magyar, hí a haza! Itt az id?, most vagy soha! Rabok legyünk vagy szabadok? Ez a kérdés, válasszatok! – A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk!

The victory of the Revolution's will and yours over the stooge pocket is regarded as a victory for the world revolution everywhere, just as the victory of the revolutionaries in South East Asia was a victory of revolutionaries everywhere.

There is a commonly held belief that rage produces results; that nothing happens in the world without the adrenaline rush of anger. The iconic figure of the Cuban revolution, Che Guevara, famously said, "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, you are a comrade of mine." Perhaps that is true. But in rage, you become one with a group; out of rage, you become one with the universe.

in the inner life, there is only one kind of revolution and it is a silent one. It is about moving from unwillingness to willingness.

But in the inner life, there is only one kind of revolution and it is a silent one. It is about moving from unwillingness to willingness.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

Whether you use bullets or ballots, you've got to aim well; don't strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

By Any Means Necessary; The Chickens Come Home To Roost.

If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

Revolutions are fought to get control of land, to remove the absentee landlord and gain control of the land and the institutions that flow from that land.

It went from fuck music to fuck-you music.