Quotes About Revolution

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

I WILL CHANGE THIS WORLD ABSOLUTELY

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

punk rock as an alternative," he says, "a real attempt to change the social order of the world.

rock & roll was an intrinsic part of a young person's soul, an engine of social change and not just a consumer commodity.

Hardcore's organizational energy was just as important as its musical energy—

plain and simple fact was there were far more hippies in the Sixties than there were punks in the Seventies and Eighties. "That's the reason this revolution took so long to complete a cycle that should have been done in three years

The revolution had been largely successful, but as it turned out, the struggle was much more fun than the victory.

He doesn't just fight it. He frees the world of it. He frees people, see?

In the 1980s, a few genetic engineering companies began to ask, "What is the biological equivalent of a Sony Walkman?" These

No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto

The revolution has to be self-liberation.

The future throws a bridge toward the past, over the gaping abyss of capitalist non-culture.

His life was dedicated to the fine art of tearing down and building anew.

Back in 1921 Veblen had predicted that engineers would one day rule the U.S. economy. He argued that since the economy was premised on technology and the engineers were the only ones who actually understood how the technology worked, they would inevitably use their superior knowledge to seize power from the financiers and captains of industry who wound up on top at the end of the first round of the Industrial Revolution.

It's the idea that is a tiny push away from general acceptance and, when it gets that push, will change the world. The

Progress does not march forward like an army on parade; it crawls on its belly like a guerrilla.

Sporadic rebellion would be replaced by class-conscious revolution. Instead of burning down the manor, the workers would expropriate it and put it to use for the collective benefit of the common people, the ones who built it in the first place.

So far, the prevailing force has not been revolution but counterrevolution, the devilish destruction wreaked by capitalist states upon popular struggles, at a cost of millions of lives.

For those local and international elites who maintain control over most of the world's wealth, social revolution is an abomination. Whether it be peaceful or violent is a question of no great moment to them. Peaceful reforms that infringe upon their profitable accumulations and threaten their class privileges are as unacceptable to them as the social upheaval by revolution.