Quotes About Revolution

In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

There was the Cultural Revolution just over the border, and Hong Kong felt quite dodgy. My younger brother's wife actually swam from China to Hong Kong to escape. I realised in the '60s that I had to get out.

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

Email is the greatest thing.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

Food is fundamental to any development, growth or change.

When I started to work at Gucci, I tried literally to destroy everything.

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

Change the way you think, and you are already halfway to changing the world.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton.

If you study Marx' Communist Manifesto you will find that in essence Marx said the proletarian revolution would establish the SOCIALIST dictatorship of the proletariat. To achieve the SOCIALIST dictatorship of the proletariat, three things would have to be accomplished: (1) The elimination of all right to private property; (2) The dissolution of the family unit; and (3) Destruction of what Marx referred to as the'opiate of the people,' religion.

Yes, the revolution was coming for them, too. How many revolutions would they have to live through during the never-ending historicity of their goddamned lives?

Power is not a means, Vinston; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." I

The tribes were Berkeley, North Beach, Big Sur, Marin County, Los Angeles, and the host, Haight-Ashbury.

Pixies, the first communists.

The old preconception that violent means always work quickly and nonviolent means always require vast time is clearly not valid. Although much time may be required for changes in the underlying situation and society, the actual fight against a dictatorship sometimes occurs relatively quickly by nonviolent struggle.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

In eighteenth century France the end was at hand when men bought the Encyclopedia and found Diderot there.