Quotes About Revolution

In times of revolution there is not a man who does not feel himself capable of anything.He seizes the moment. He starts with a great vigour, but how often are his actions foolhardy or ill-considered...and how often are they unscrupulous ?

His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

They were shot. All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

Anyway, you can be polite about it, but that's fucked up. I'm Japanese but I'm not stupid. I lived in America and Europe for a long time; it's crazy what the Japanese have done to the Koreans and the Chinese who were born here. It's fucking bonkers; you people should have a revolution. You don't protest enough. You and your dad were born here, right?

There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition

Most movements have a fixed concept towards which they advance, we move away from all fixed concepts in order to advance.

At first, Comrade Professor described the injustices that the farmers had suffered at the hands of the rich. The time had come, he said, when the villagers could redress their wrongs. He called on the poor farmers to have no mercy on the karakuls, and, what struck us most, he called on us to destroy them. Killing the rich, he declared, was the only way for poor farmers to attain a better and more prosperous life.

The Age of Aquarius expunges the righteous establishment.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

PROPENSITY OF THE YOUNG TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND challenge power is now amplified by the More and Mobility revolutions. Not only are there more people than ever under thirty, but they have more—prepaid calling-cards, radios, TVs, cellphones, computers, and access to the Internet as well as to travel and communication possibilities with others like them at home and around the world. They are also more mobile than ever.

Specifically it is about how power—the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something—is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

Es posible, sin embargo, que el aspecto de la revolución de la movilidad que más está transformando el poder sea la urbanización.

Mao dice que el poder nace de la boca de un fusil, ¡y tiene razón! La democracia es una farsa burguesa

They'd stopped being shrewd worshippers begging for interviews and had become irritating stones in the revolution's shoes.

Para trabajar por la defensa nacional, llama a su pueblo a crear Círculos Bolivarianos en cada barrio, en cada organización. Ésta es su versión de los legendarios Comités de Defensa de la Revolución, los CDR, que instauró Fidel al principio de su largo gobierno:

Para dicha de los pobres y malestar de los ricos Hugo insiste, de nuevo, en que va a barrer del mapa a los viejos poderes oligárquicos.

To describe such changes at this deep level and to understand what they are doing to power, we need to break them down into three categories: the More revolution, the Mobility revolution, and the Mentality revolution. The first is swamping the barriers to power; the second is circumventing them; the third is undercutting them.

Su otro propósito en esa aventura boliviana era alejarse de Fidel, un secreto a voces nunca mencionado en los festejos al Che.

Los nuevos competidores, ágiles, insurgentes y revolucionarios, son tan eficaces y amenazantes en el mundo de la mercadotecnia y la publicidad como lo son en el de la política o en el de la guerra.

We have changed all that.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.