Quotes About Revolution

The Okhrana may have failed to prevent the Russian Revolution, but they were so successful in poisoning revolutionary minds that, thirty years after the fall of the Tsars, the Bolsheviks were still killing each other in a witch hunt for non-existent traitors.

institutionalized and raised to an amoral Bolshevik faith with messianic fervour.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn't believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as an opposition…

Young Stalin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.

Indeed, a parallel history of Europe could be written which viewed family life and regular work as the essential Continental motor of civilization. Then war and revolution would need to be seen by historians as startling, sick departures from that norm of a kind that require serious explanation, rather than viewing periods of gentle introversy as mere tiresome interludes before the next thrill-packed bloodbath.

It Can't Happen Here.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!

What will turn the world upside down, we currently still depend on it as humans.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

There's one place where (Fidel Castro's) Cuba stands out head and shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind." —Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776), American political activist at the time of the Revolutionary War.

North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.

the best way to honor Chairman Mao's memory was to see his face on as many hundred yuan notes as possible.

On a des centaines de partis politiques et plus de groupes d'influence que de grains de sable sur nos plages. On a des grèves, des émeutes, des manifestations. Presque tous les jours. On comprend mieux pourquoi le Che s'est fait la malle après la révolution. C'est beaucoup plus facile de faire sauter les trains que de les faire arriver à l'heure.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.