Quotes About Revolution

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

All great truths began as blasphemies.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

Improvement usually means doing something we have never done before.

It is the leap from the age of territory to the age of science.

From the beginning I felt that there were only two ways to create change for black people in this country — either politically or by open armed revolution. Malcolm defined it succinctly — the ballot or the bullet. Since I believe that human life is uniquely valuable and important, for me the choice had to be the creative use of the ballot. I still believe I was right. I hope America never succeeds in changing my mind.

Technology makes the world a new place.

The failure of the Russian Revolution is directly traceable to the failure of its attempts to eliminate the family and sexual repression […] By the same token, all socialist revolutions to date have been or will be failures for precisely these reasons. Any initial liberation under current socialism must always revert back to repression, because the family structure is the source of psychological, economic, and political oppression.

Einen braucht es, der Parolen ruft, und mit Glück werden ihm andere folgen. Wenn nicht, dann steht man nicht als Anführer einer Revolution auf der Straße, sondern als Geisteskranker. Es ist immer die Angst, der einzige zu sein und nicht zur Gruppe zu gehören, was den Menschen von bleibenden Taten abhält, und wenn es ihm irgendwann egal wird, was die Gruppe von ihm hält, dann wird er zum Amokläufer.

Nothing is the same.

Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.

The great citizen, the first-born son of the New World.

O cambiarte el nombre por Neville Brody. Si fueras él, habrías entrado a trabajar en la revista londinense The Face en 1981 y habrías transformado su diseño, asaz predecible, de manera tal que tu estilo reverberaría no solo en otras revistas sino en libros, discos y otros muchos aspectos del diseño comercial de las siguientes décadas.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, the Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, "It's too soon to tell.

One of those who cooked for Rasputin during the Great War was a chef at Petrograd's luxurious Astoria Hotel who went on, after the Revolution, to cook for Lenin and Stalin. He was Spiridon Putin, grandfather of President Vladimir Putin.

Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators before the Revolution. Indeed much of the tragedy of Leninism-Stalinism is comprehensible only if one realizes that the Bolsheviks continued to behave in the same clandestine style whether they formed the government of the world's greatest empire in the Kremlin or an obscure little cabal in the backroom of a Tiflis tavern.

He asked, 'How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?

Commissar for Justice?' Isaak Shteinberg, a Left-SR, challenged Lenin. 'Let's honestly call it the Commissariat of Social Annihilation!' 'Well said!' replied Lenin. 'That's exactly how it's going to be!