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Quotes About Revolution

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.
~ Phil Ochs
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.
~ Michael Parenti
You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.
~ Peter Kropotkin
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
~ Mao Zedong
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.
~ Edward Snowden
Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
~ Hildegard Knef
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
~ Leonard Sweet
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
~ Mikhail Bakunin
We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
~ Che Guevara
Don't accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
~ Bhagat Singh
The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity
~ Mikhail Bakunin
There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.
~ Liza Marklund
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
~ Georg Buchner
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
~ Dean Koontz
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.
~ Dave Chappelle
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.
~ Denis Leary
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.
~ Frederick Lenz
Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits' end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.
~ George Hammond
Paradigm shift: does that come before swing shift or after?
~ The Covert Comic
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
~ Shane Claiborne