Quotes About Revolution

The white devil's time is up.

Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

Latin America, for the first time in 500 years, is moving towards a degree of independence.

It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

Cercai di percorrere col pensiero la rivoluzione attraverso la quale passeremo tutti, il cuore che s'arresta, il cervello che rinuncia al pensiero, i polmoni che cessano di aspirare la vita. Anch'io subirò uno sconvolgimento analogo: morirò, un giorno. Ma ogni agonia è diversa; i miei sforzi per figurarmi quella di Antinoo non pervenivano che a una costruzione priva di valore: era morto solo.

That is why a new American revolution is a revolution of consciousness, and a new American politics is a politics of love.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

The key to changing the way people think is to change what's popular. That's why rather than submit to the mainstream, you have to become it—and then overcome it.

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.

It is not unusual now to hear religion and humanism spoken of as if they were opposed, even antagonistic. But humanism clearly rested on the idea that people have souls, and that they have certain obligations to them, and certain pleasures in them, which arise from their refinement or their expression in art or in admirable or striking conduct, or which arise from finding other souls expressed in music or philosophy or philanthropy or revolution.

I'm only interested in an art which can change the ideology of society....Art which is only committed to aesthetic values is incomplete.

When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication.