Quotes About Revolution

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Men of the South! It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Land and Freedom!

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hand but a rifle in your fist

Robespierre fu un capo popolare, nel senso che i suoi discorsi e la sua fama erano noti, ma personalmente non si trovò mai alla testa della folla rivoluzionaria in nessuna situazione decisiva, come accadde del resto ad altri celebri capi rivoluzionari.

Quello che accadde in Francia nei successivi dieci anni di convulsioni rivoluzionarie persuase i patrioti americani che la Rivoluzione francese, con le continue insurrezioni di folle, le violenze, i massacri, il Terrore, le guerre continentali, e infine l'impero napoleonico, era l'antitesi della loro rivoluzione.

Per i patrizi repubblicani degli Stati Uniti, profondamente diffidenti verso la plebaglia e la democrazia, l'esito della Rivoluzione francese confermava che la democrazia dei plebei conduce alla tirannia del demagogo. «I

Singolare e straordinaria è la brevità del tempo impiegato dal fascismo per conquistare il potere. Il partito bolscevico aveva 14 anni quando conquistò il potere con un colpo di Stato nel 1917.

Per i Padri fondatori, la folla era stata un alleato prezioso per iniziare la ribellione, ma una volta fondati gli Stati Uniti, il popolo doveva lasciarsi governare e guidare dai più saggi e competenti. La rivolta per iniziare la rivoluzione era stata la funzione della folla: concludere la rivoluzione era la funzione dei capi;

Cromwell fu il primo capo vittorioso di una rivoluzione moderna che abbia trasformato la repubblica in una dittatura personale, e la dittatura personale in una dittatura ereditaria.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Either this organisation of injustice with its entire machine of oppressive laws and privileged institutions, must disappear, or else the proletariat is condemned to eternal slavery. This is the quintessence of the Socialist idea, whose germs can be found in the instinct of every serious thinking worker.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

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.

Revolutionary propaganda is in its deepest sense the negation of the existing conditions of the State, for, with respect to its innermost nature, it has no other program than the destruction of whatever order prevails at the time.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

A small revolution was taking place, so modest and well behaved that almost no one had noticed.

In these times, liberty is no longer proscribed; it is going its rounds again.

Even thrones rise and fall in France with fearful rapidity. Fifteen years have wreaked their will on a great empire, a monarchy, and a revolution. No one can now dare to count upon the future.

Pensa fuori dagli schemi, smonta gli schemi e falli a pezzi

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.