Quotes About Revolution

The Labor government of 1945, which was put in power by popular vote and did what the people wanted, was nearer the Marxist idea than any of the governments thrown up by revolution, French, Russian or other.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming event that reshaped all who lived through it, and continues to affect those born after it. Only the American Revolution that created the new nation and the Civil War that preserved the Union rank with it in importance.

Too young to bring about change, we brought about disturbance.

I have heard a hundred housebroken Ezra Pounds. They should all be freed. It is long since I was a herdsman.

Alcohol kills: Take LSD THE YOUNG MAKE LOVE, THE OLD MAKE OBSCENE GESTURES I'M A GROUCHO MARXIST "Revolution is the ecstasy of history" MAKE LOVE AND BEGIN AGAIN POWER TO THE IMAGINATION! "Nous sommes tous les enragés"—Ortega y Gasset TO FORBID IS FORBIDDEN Open the Windows of Your Heart MAKE LOVE NOT WAR THE SORBONNE IS THE STALINGRAD OF THE REVOLUTION!

Fuck Art, let's Dance!

Strategy is revolution. Everything else is tactics.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon fue el primero en promover la anarquía, que definió en 1840 como «la ausencia de señor, de un soberano». Fue él quien planteó la pregunta: «¿Qué es la propiedad?», a la que contestó con su famosa respuesta: «Un robo».

El modelo que inspiraba esa idea se había olvidado hacía mucho tiempo: era el «tercer estado» de los franceses que se rebelaron en 1789 contra el primer y segundo estados de la nobleza y el clero.

Lawrence Freedman

WHAT SERVETUS HAD NOT taken into account was that it does not take very long for revolutions to turn reactionary.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

Things are not revolutionalized by making revolutions, The real revolution lies in the solution of existing problems.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

August 1793 was during the Reign of Terror—when so many aristocrats and wealthy people were seized and guillotined without trials. Marie Antoinette was in the Bastille then. She was executed

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."