Quotes About Revolution

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

The revolution will not be televised.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.

The miracle of Grenada is how quickly the Cuban workers beat their plowshares into Soviet AK-47s.

Peace, he'd said. And revolution. How could there be both?

Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Small changes in thought can bring massive changes in life.

Only true rebelliousness can change the world for the better. Be rebellious.

Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.

If you want to conform, then how can you change?

But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.