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Quotes About Revolution

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
~ Orson Scott Card
History is an omelet. The eggs are already broken.
~ Orson Scott Card
She is a woman, and so she dreams of freedom, of an hour in which there is no duty waiting to be done. No wonder there is revolution burning in her words, and yet they remain always words and never violence.
~ Orson Scott Card
where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter
~ Colum McCann
I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to?
~ Cory Doctorow
Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.
~ Crimethinc
Revolution required illusion. The two went hand in glove, like a plate of rice and beans.
~ Cristina García
Without the U.S. embargo, the Revolution couldn't have survived. It'd needed a common enemy to blame for its economic ills. In the end consumerism, not guns would destroy Socialism. Microwaves and computers, motorcycles, iPhones, Omaha Steaks.
~ Cristina García
Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.
~ Cristina García
A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred one of those tiny incidents which revolutionizes the whole course of our life and alter the face of history. Truly we are the playthings of enormous fates.
~ Cyril Connolly
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
~ D. H. Lawrence
U svetu gde je sve obmana — pri?ati istinu je revolucionaran ?in.
~ Džordž Orvel
A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way; and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the soul, a peculiar sense of doubt and bewilderment. Such a double life, with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes, must give rise to double words and double ideals, and tempt the mind to pretence or revolt, to hypocrisy or radicalism.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
XIV. COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF PROPERTY How, After the war, triumphant industry in the North coupled with privilege and monopoly led an orgy of death that engulfed the nation and was the natural child of war; and how revolt against this anarchy became reaction against democracy, North and South, and delivered the lands into the hands of an organized monarchy of finance while it overthrew the attempt at a dictatorship of labor in the South.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
John Brown taught us that the cheapest price to pay for liberty is its cost to-day.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Explosive bifurcation is the sudden transition that wrenches the system out of one order, and into another.
~ Wally Lamb
Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
~ Walt Whitman
Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves, Like lightning Europe le'pt forth, Sombre, superb and terrible.
~ Walt Whitman
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.
~ Walter A. McDougall