Quotes About Revolution

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Nothing will ever be the same again.

They sit for hours in the "cafes" warming their precious behinds, and talk without stopping about "culture" "art" "revolution" and so on and so forth, thinking themselves the gods of the world, dreaming the most fantastic nonsenses and poisoning the air with theories and theories that never come true.

I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

Nur im Irrenhaus sind wir noch frei. Nur im Irrenhaus durfen wir noch denken. In der Freiheit sind unsere Gedanken Sprengstoff.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.

Every time I turn around, it seems the world has changed somehow.

As soon as one revolution achieves its goal, another will begin to scheme.

Everything you assumed is no longer valid.

That's the difference between you and them, Elend, he thought. Those philosophers you read – they were revolutionaries. They were willing to risk execution. You can't even stand up to your father.

Revolution might sound a little dramatic, but in this world, choosing authenticity and worthiness is an absolute act of resistance. Choosing to live and love with our whole hearts is an act of defiance. You're going to confuse, piss off, and terrify lots of people—including yourself. One

Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet.

There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.

Mysticism and revolution are two aspects of the same attempt to bring about radical change. Mystics cannot prevent themselves from becoming social critics, since in self-reflection they will discover the roots of a sick society. Similarly, revolutionaries cannot avoid facing their own human condition, since in the midst of their struggle for a new world they will find that they are also fighting their own reactionary fears and false ambitions.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

Tous les hommes reconnaissent le droit à la révolution, c'est-à-dire le droit de refuser fidélité et allégeance au gouvernement et le droit de lui résister quand sa tyrannie ou son incapacité sont notoires et intolérables.

Ä°lkeli eylemler, hakk?n idraki ve icras?, ÅŸeyleri ve iliÅŸkileri deÄŸiÅŸtirir; bu da özünde devrimci bir davran??t?r ve yaln?zca geçmiÅŸte de devrimci olan ÅŸeylerden ibaret deÄŸildir. Devletleri ve kiliseleri bölmekle kalmaz, aileleri de böler; evet, içindeki ÅŸeytani yan? kutsal olandan ay?rarak bireyi de böler.

Miss Chancellor would have been much happier if the movements she was interested in could have been carried on only by people she liked,and if revolutions, somehow, didn't always have to begin with one's self--with internal convulsions,sacrifices,executions.

I want to prevent as many men as possible from pretending that they have to do this or that because they must earn a living. It is not true. One can starve to death—it is much better. Every man who voluntarily starves to death jams another cog in the automatic process. I would rather see a man take a gun and kill his neighbor, in order to get the food he needs, than keep up the automatic process by pretending that he has to earn a living.