Quotes About Revolution

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

This machine kills fascists.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops—which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

At the heart of this phenomenon, Fourth Generation war,4 lies not a military evolution but a political, social, and moral revolution: a crisis of legitimacy of the state. All over the world, citizens of states are transferring their primary allegiance away from the state to other entities: to tribes, ethnic groups, religions, gangs, ideologies, and "causes." Many people who will no longer fight for their state are willing to fight for their new primary loyalty.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.