Quotes About Revolution

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

The wave of insurrection passed, leaving little change in the condition of the working class. Inertia in the scales of history weighs more heavily than change. Four hundred years were to elapse before the descendants of the Maillotins seized the Bastille.

Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.

the majority of Russians are materially better off than before, the cost in cruelty and tyranny has been no less and probably greater than under the czars. The French Revolution, great prototype of populist government, reverted rapidly to

In the end Britain made rebels where there had been none.

the Regents' dislike of the social "leveling" they sensed in the Revolution was stronger.

Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter.

The Brunswick Manifesto, rather than accomplishing Louis XVI's rescue, paved the way to the guillotine, which could have been foreseen if Karl Wilhelm had given the matter any forethought, but thinking ahead is given to chess players, not to autocrats.

Henry Lee's path-breaking resolution in Congress in June, 1776, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent

Every religious revolution has been the struggle of thought to gain another step in the ladder that reaches to heaven.

But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We are the future. We are the revolution.

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

The cause of the WPK is a sacred historic cause for fully realizing the independence of the masses of the people, the cause of the Juche revolution.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

One person's rebel is another person's freedom fighter, isn't it?

I'm a kind of double-breasted rebel in that I've always believed the important thing is that generations react against one another. For instance, there was always something oddly creative about the fact that Hanoverian sons hated their fathers so much.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

The Earth needs rebels!