Quotes About Revolution

Who, pray, are benefiting by all this waste and confusion? The few, a mere small percentage of the population of the world. All the remainder submit, because they think "it always has been so and it must always be so." The work of those who have a conception of a true society of the future, must devote all their efforts toward disabusing the people's minds of the ancient falsehoods. It can be done. Many other hoary lies have passed away, so will this one, too.

a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society

History always catches up with rebels".

History always catches up with rebels.

What makes Bolshevism strong is not the Soviets' artillery and machine-guns but the fact that the whole world receives its ideas sympathetically.

Capitalism has succeeded in raising the material well-being of the masses in an unprecedented way. In the capitalist countries population figures are now several times higher than they were at the eve of the "industrial revolution," and every citizen of these nations enjoys a standard of living much higher than that of the well-to-do of earlier ages.

Nikolai Bukharin [1888–1938], a Communist author who lived in a Communist country, wrote a pamphlet in 19175, in which he said, we asked for freedom of the press, thought, and civil liberties in the past because we were in the opposition and needed these liberties to conquer. Now that we have conquered, there is no longer any need for such civil liberties.

The "Keynesian revolution" took place long before Keynes approved of it and fabricated a pseudo-scientific justification for it. What he really did was to write an apology for the prevailing policies of governments.

Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

Liberty once lost, is lost forever.

Are you a Bolshevik?' 'More an anarchist, I like to think. Anyway, I'm quite determined to bring down the settled order of British Society. Once I've dealt with Franco and Hitler that is.' She stood. 'Perhaps we'd better go in and have tea before you start the revolution.' Miller clambered to his feet. 'Ah, in this country even the revolution stops for tea,' he said.

Destruam et aedificabo, as Proudhon was wont to cry.

The word "innovation" comes from the Latin words in and novare, meaning "to make something new, to change".

It was also not difficult to forecast that no matter how well endowed they were with material resources those countries where the Industrial Revolution arrived late would change proportionately more slowly. After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children.

I hope the next time the young go out for an intellectual rebellion, they will think to try the library. It's still the most subversive building in town, and it's still human headquarters.

You can't have a new idea 'til you've got rid of an old one.

Between Two Ages laid out Brzezinski's vision of what U.S. society would be like. The U.S. he wrote "is now in an information revolution based on amusement focus, spectator spectacles (saturation coverage by television of sporting events), which provide an opiate for an increasingly purposeless mass.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

Give me liberty or give me death.".]

The birthplace of anarchy is the cemetery of freedom.

Rebellion leads to ruin.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.