Quotes About Revolution

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no name. Everything in him is subordinated towards a single thought, a single passion: the Revolution.' Sergei Nechayev, The Revolutionary Catechism, 1869

In England and France, they executed their kings some centuries ago, but we were late with ours.

There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since.

But darling Sasha, why resort to terrorism, murder? How awful.' He replied, 'What can one do, Mother, when there are no other means available?

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

The revolution died a self-inflicted death in 1918 with the establishment of the Cheka.

I appreciate many wonderful and brilliant discoveries made by humanity during the years of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the radical transformation of the human diet was rather destructive.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I've learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.