Quotes About Revolution

Roll over BeethovenAnd tell Tchaikovsky the news.

Bung Karno, besok aku akan digantung. Aku meninggalkan dunia yang fana ini dengan hati gembira, pergi ke tiang gantungan dengan keyakinan dan kekuatan batin karena aku tahu Bung Karno akan melanjutkan perjuangan ini yang juga merupakan peperangan kami. Teruslah berjuang Bung Karno, balikkan perjuangan sejarah untuk semua kami yang sudah pergi mendahului sebelum perjuangan itu selesai" - Seorang Pejuang Kemerdekaan Yang Digantung Di Ciamis Melalui Surat Yang Diselundupkan Kepada Bung Karno

Menghukum Sukarno berarti menghukum seluruh pergerakan.

Revolusi kini telah membuktikan dirinya sebagai pembantu-pembantuku yang baik dan loyal. Tentu tak ada yang mengira bahwa kami pernah berada pada pihak yang bertentangan. Kami hanya tidak sepakat di dalam taktik. Itulah cara dari orang-orang revolusioner.

Satu revolusi adalah sebuah rantai panjang, yang menghubungkan penjungkirbalikan yang satu dengan yang lain.

Aku masih memimpin satu revolusi, sekalipun hanya revolusi dari "tuntutan yang semakin meningkat". Ini berarti hidup menurut hukum revolusi: hantam lawan-lawanmu. Membunuh atau dibunuh. Memenjarakan atau dipenjarakan.

Kaum imperialis, perhatikan! Apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Perang Pasifik menggeledek dan menyambar-nyambar membelah angkasa, apabila dalam waktu yang tidak lama lagi Samudera Pasifik menjadi merah oleh darah dan bumi disekitarnya bergetar oleh ledakan-ledakan bom dan dinamit, di saat itulah rakyat Indonesia akan melepaskan dirinya dari belenggu penjajahan dan menjadi bangsa yang merdeka.

Apapun yang terjadi, kami tak 'kan melupakan semboyan revolusi: Sekali Merdeka Tetap Merdeka!

Yang lebih penting di dalam suatu peperangan dan revolusi adalah waktu yang tepat.

The world exploded into billions of atoms, and when it rearranged itself, it may have looked the same, but really, it was a Whole New World.

America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn't be to manufacture "productive citizens" to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a "calling" that will change the world. The jobs for the future are no longer Manager, Director, or Analyst, but Entrepreneur, Creator, and even Revolutionary.

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor

He changed sunset into sunrise.

We rebelled by criminal methods against the joyfulness of the new life." —LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI QUOTING BUKHARIN AT HIS TRIAL, IN MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM, VOL. 3, P. 82

He committed suicide in 1794 because the Revolutionary authorities had made it clear that they planned to reward his irreverent wit with a visit to the guillotine.

Trotsky's idea of permanent revolution will always be attractive to the kind of romantic who believes that he is being oppressed by global capitalism when he maxes out his credit card.

Think hard about it I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.