Quotes About Revolution

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

You have to be a little bad to make history.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.