Quotes About Revolution

Preserve the present order, or change it? At the French Assembly of 1789, the delegates who favored preservation sat on the right side of the chamber, while those who favored change sat on the left. The terms right and left have stood for conservatism and liberalism ever since.

The casual destruction of privacy is one of the most momentous and least visible social revolutions of our time, and the safeguards to anonymity that remain are largely a function of numbers—what I call the Big World Problem.

But revolutions don't happen because of one or two individuals; they happen because the majority wakes up and realizes that things must change.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

fuck money, I don't rap for dead presidents, I'd rather see the president dead, it's never been said, but I set precedents.

You have to break an omelette to make eggs.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

The Revolution has a way of strengthening it self. It goes into cycles. This is another cycle where it rids itself of elements that have become inconsistent with the correct line.

la Revolución ha sido la gran Diosa, la Amada eterna y la gran Puta de poetas y novelistas. Octavio Paz, «La letra y el cetro», septiembre de 1972.

El 30 de julio de 1811 murió ejecutado

His psychological and internal rhythm was not that of the Revolution but of the countryside, the tempo of the ranches, made up of cycles and fatality

Los tiranos creen que el poder se conserva a punta de bayoneta. En México no es así: basta con repartir a la masa un puñado de cohetes y unos barriles de pulque.

Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolnikov – were killed by Stalin between 1936 and 1941; only Lenin and Stalin himself died natural deaths.

Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of air.

International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them … in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it makes them in the name of Law and Order and Sound Finance. Assassination? If an assassination is going to be good for business, then there will be an assassination.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." Victor

The struggle within Turkey that continues to this day is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk's radical reformation

So profound were these changes that the amendments should be seen not simply as an alteration of an existing structure but as a "second founding," a "constitutional revolution," in the words of Republican leader Carl Schurz, that created a fundamentally new document with a new definition of both the status of blacks and the rights of all Americans.1