Quotes About Revolution

Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius, it is unlikely that we will save our planet. A purely rational education will not suffice.

The God who may have inspired the first successful peasants' uprising in history is a God of revolution. In all three faiths, he has inspired an ideal of social justice, even though it has to be said that Jews, Christians and Muslims have often failed to live up to this ideal and have transformed him into the God of the status quo.

In ten short years since the hijrah, Muhammad had irrevocably changed the political and spiritual landscape of Arabia.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.

They had to take a page from ACT UP, the Weather Underground, the United Freedom Front, and shake these corrupt institutions to their very foundations.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower.

The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Not in vain does it [the proletariat] go through the stern but steeling school of labour. It is not a question of what this or that proletarian, or even the whole proletariat, at the moment regards as its aim. It is a question of what the proletariat is, and what, in accordance with this being, it will historically be compelled to do.

In 1642 the modern world was born.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution THAT CARES AS LITTLE ABOUT THE HUMAN LIVES IT DESTROYS as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages. Classes and RACES THAT ARE TOO WEAK to dominate the new conditions of existence WILL BE DEFEATED.

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

Die Proletarier dieser Welt haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!

Ji bilî zincîrên xwe tiÅŸtekî ku proleter ji dest bidin nîn e. Lê cîhaneke ku bi dest bixin heye. Karkerên hemû welatan, bibin yek!