Quotes About Revolution

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Mao was a librarian who became a book burner.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Luddites broke hundreds of machines and shut down dozens of factories. To the poorest factory workers, Luddites were heroes!

Galileo was one of the first scientists to use the scientific method. Instead of accepting old ideas, he carefully observed the world around him, and then tried to make a theory that would explain his observations.

or even mid September 1793, when Terror—the policy of intimidation—was officially declared "the order of the day" and the Law of Suspects was passed, which made it far too easy for a citizen to be suspected and imprisoned for counter-revolutionary sympathies or even for apathy, and which greatly expanded the powers of the Revolutionary Tribunal.

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers' revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial

Americans had to tie every radical aspiration into a puritanical knot.

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

While you live, the revolution lives

People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!" There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

The girl on fire.

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

But the only thing that distracts me from my current situation is fantasizing about killing President Snow.

I point to the planes burning on the roof of the warehouse across from us. The Capitol seal on a wing glows clearly through the flames. 'Fire is catching!' I am shouting now, determined that he will not miss a word. 'And if we burn, you burn with us!

You're the mockingjay Katniss. While you live, the revolution lives.

Tu sei la ghiandaia imitratrice, Katniss. Finché sei viva, vive anche la rivoluzione.

If we declare our freedom the Capitol collapses.

You can torture us, bombard us, set fire to our districts. But you see that? Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us.

Das Feuer breitet sich aus!", schreie ich jetzt, damit Snow auch ja kein Wort verpasst. "Und wenn wir brennen, brennen Sie mit!

El fuego se propaga! -grito, decidida a que oiga todas y cada una de mis palabras-. ¡Y si nosotros ardemos, tú arderás con nosotros!