Quotes About Revolution

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

Four legs good, two legs bad.' This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism.

If there is any hope, it lies in the proles

We all rail against class-distinctions, but very few people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important fact that every revolutionary opinion draws part of its strength from a secret conviction that nothing can be changed.

But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt.

Power is not a means, 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 dictator-ship.

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

A revolutionary army can sometimes win by enthusiasm, but a conscript army has got to win with weapons

Dans des temps de tromperie généralisée, le seul fait de dire la vérité est un acte révolutionnaire.

If there is hope, it's in the proles.

Los Altos quieren quedarse donde están. Los Medianos tratan de arrebatarles sus puestos a los Altos. La finalidad de los Bajos, cuando la tienen -porque su principal característica es hallarse aplastados por las exigencias de la vida cotidiana-, consiste en abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en que todos los hombre sean iguales.

Dopóki nie poÅ'Ä…czy ich Å›wiadomo??, nigdy sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…; dopóki sÄ… nie zbuntujÄ…, nie stanÄ… siÄ™ Å›wiadomi.

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. Now do you begin to understand me?

IstniejÄ… cztery realne przyczyny utraty wÅ'adzy przez grupÄ™ rzÄ…dzÄ…cÄ…: zbrojna interwencja z zewnÄ…trz; tak nieudolne kierowanie paÅ"stwem, i? uciÅ›nione masy dokonujÄ… przewrotu; powstanie silnej i rozgoryczonej warstwy Å›redniej; utrata pewnoÅ›ci siebie i ochoty do rzÄ…dzenia. Jedna z tych przyczyn nie wystarczy; zwykle wystÄ™pujÄ…, w ró?nym stopniu, wszystkie cztery.

Porque se lazer e segurança fossem desfrutados por todos igualmente, a grande massa de seres humanos que costuma ser embrutecida pela pobreza se alfabetizaria e aprenderia a pensar por si; e depois que isso acontecesse, mais cedo ou mais tarde essa massa se daria conta de que a minoria privilegiada não tinha função nenhuma e acabaria com ela. A longo termo, uma sociedade hierárquica só era possível num mundo de pobreza e ignorância.

Od ideja smo prešli na rije?i, od rije?i smo prešli na djela, zbog toga se vladaju?i i boje ideja.

Una revolución comienza con una amplia difusión de ideas de libertad, igualdad, etc. Después viene el crecimiento de una oligarquía que está tan interesada en aferrarse a sus privilegios como lo está cualquier otra clase dominante. Tal oligarquía necesariamente será hostil a revoluciones en otros lugares, las cuales inevitablemente despiertan de nuevo las ideas de libertad e igualdad.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; 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.

Las gallinas -dijo Napoleón- debían recibir con agrado este sacrificio como aportación especial a la construcción del molino.»

Ä°ktidar bir araç deÄŸil, bir amaçt?r. Kimse devrimi korumak için diktatörlük kurmaz; diktatörlük kurmak için devrim yapar. Zulmün amac? zulümdür. Ä°ÅŸkencenin amac? iÅŸkencedir. Ä°ktidar?n amac? iktidard?r.

The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300—and so it went on. It was like a single equation with two unknowns.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictator- ship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power