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Quotes About Revolution

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
~ John F. Kennedy
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
~ Nikita Khrushchev
We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
~ Fidel Castro
One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.
~ Vladimir Lenin
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.
~ Bernie Sanders
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
~ Clement Attlee
It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
~ Leon Trotsky
Revolutions are always verbose.
~ Leon Trotsky
What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.
~ Bernie Sanders
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
~ Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
All revolutions devour their own children.
~ Ernst Rohm
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
~ Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.
~ Che Guevara
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
~ Mark Twain
If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.
~ Joseph Sobran
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
~ Tony Kushner
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
~ Karl Marx
We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.
~ Marilyn Manson
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
~ Albert Einstein
What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?
~ Don Feder
Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
~ Hannah Arendt
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
~ Bob Dylan