Quotes About Revolution

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

I can't imagine what this great country would be like if the Mexican Revolution hadn't happened.

Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.

In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi - when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.

Changing the game is a mindset.

Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by it and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

A little rebellion is good now and then.

all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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

Is it the Fourth?

A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

El árbol de la libertad debe ser vigorizado de vez en cuando con la sangre de patriotas y tiranos: es su fertilizante natural»

all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance....The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

what was in those days called social order, namely, the preservation of the privileges of the few who happened to have any, at the expense of the swinish multitude who happened to have none, except that of working and being shot at for the benefit of their betters:

What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

Carlyle opina que «es absurdo impartir la bendición a las revoluciones o maldecirlas, pero es importante estudiarlas; es enojoso arrastrarse detrás de ellas, acompañándolas por el fango y la inmundicia; peligroso servirlas; inútil luchar contra ellas; pero es glorioso esparcir, en medio de las ruinas, semillas de fe e ideas morales que contribuyan a la reedificación».