Quotes About Revolution

Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.

Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change "man's condition" ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.

The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.

The political presence of the masses always culminates in a hellish apocalypse.

Alles was ein Tradition unterbricht zwingt zu neuem Anfang. Und jeder Anfang ist blutig.

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Reactionaries are recruited from among the front-row spectators of a revolution.

What most likely is upon us is not a revolutionary terror, but a counter-revolutionary terror implemented by disgusted revolutionaries.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Michelet.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

La revolución es progresista y busca el robustecimiento del estado; la rebelión es reaccionaria y busca su desvanecimiento. El revolucionario es un funcionario en potencia; el rebelde es un reaccionario en acto. (Revolution is progressive and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.)

La revolución socialista se podrá consolidar solo a través de la destrucción del sistema burocrático y militar del Estado Burgués

Sólo a través de la lucha armada se pueden crear las condiciones subjetivas de la revolución. Sólo a través de la guerra de guerrillas se pueden crear las condiciones para la construcción de un Ejército del Pueblo"[33]

transformaciones producidas al nivel de las teorías que ella misma barajaba para delinear sus estrategias revolucionarias. Es la eterna dialéctica entre

Despising money is like toppling a king off his throne.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

When the Communist Army took over China

Articles in the newspapers and talks by leading Maoists encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism.

The Proletarian Cultural Revolution, ushered in with so much fanfare and promise for the Chinese masses, had not really changed their lives or given them new opportunities for development. The Chinese people continued to struggle against poverty, shortages, and lack of choice. The Cultural Revolution had merely created a new set of circumstances to which at least the young workers were adjusting with cynicism and audacity.

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.