Quotes About Revolution

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Our basic aim is to liberate the land from the Mediterranean Seas to the Jordan River. We are not concerned with what took place in June 1967 or in eliminating the the consequences of the June war. The Palestinian revolution's basic concern is the uprooting of the Zionist entity from our land and liberating it.

Everyone has to go mad, it's essential fir everyone to go mad - as soon as possible! It's essential - I know.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

Yesterday, there was a Tzar and there were slaves. Today, there is no Tzar, but the slaves are still here. Tomorrow there will be only Tzars. We walk forward in the name of the free man of tomorrow, the Tzar of tomorrow. We have gone through the epoch when the masses were oppressed. We are now going through the epoch when the individual is oppressed in the name of the masses.

Their mistake was the mistake of Galileo. He was right that the earth revolves around the sun, but he didn't know that the entire solar system revolves around yet another center; he didn't know that the real orbit of the earth, as opposed to the relative orbit, is by no means some naive circle...

Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose")

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?' and 'What next?' ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite.

Revolutions are infinite.

We must all go insane—as soon as possible go insane.

Well, which final revolution do you want then? There isn't a final one. Revolutions are infinite. Final things are for children because infinity scares children and it is important that children sleep peacefully at night . . .

Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature, for it is antientropic, it is a means of combating calcification. ...It is utopian, absurd. ...It is right 150 years later.' -from 'On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters' as read in the introduction to Mirra Ginsburg's translation of 'We.