Quotes About Revolution

In the NEP era Soviet society was not yet the tightly controlled organism that it would become during the Stalinist thirties as a result of the revolution from above that Stalin initiated in late 1929, when the power to do so was finally in his hands.

Since then the Revolution had gone through a first period of utter isolation and a second period of open war with the Entente, and now had entered a third period of being not only recognized abroad but even a little feared.

Paraphrasing the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: "Here I stand, on the borderline between the old capitalist and the new socialist worlds. Here, on this borderline, I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and the peasantry of the East in order to smash the old world. "May the god of history help me.

Who will establish himself finally in the Caucasus, who will use the oil and the extremely important roads leading to the heart of Asia, the Revolution or the Entente—that is the whole question.[385]

Ulyanov moved to Petersburg in 1893,

For that, the proletariat must be victorious "at least in several other countries."[587] Only in the further progress of world revolution lay final security—and in that sense final victory—for the Soviet Revolution.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527

The men who have changed the universe have never gotten there by working on leaders, but rather by moving the masses. Working on leaders is the method of intrigue and only leads to secondary results. Working on the masses, however, is the stroke of genius that changes the face of the world. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 1769-1821

You are not tied to a particular position; your loyalty is not to a career or a company. You are committed to your Life's Task, to giving it full expression. It is up to you to find it and guide it correctly. It is not up to others to protect or help you. You are on your own. Change is inevitable, particularly in such a revolutionary moment

The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.

It means constantly seeking and implementing better ways of thinking and acting across old and new corners of the system.

En un tiempo de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.

records shows that at least two and a half million people were summarily executed or tortured to death during the Great Leap Forward. Millions more starved because they were intentionally deprived of food as punishment, or because they were regarded as too old or weak to be productive, or because the people ladling out the slop in the chow line simply did not like them.

The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That's what happened to you. The damage was physical. It's as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was.

If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government.

In der Wissenschaft kommt es alle paar Jahre vor, daß etwas, das bis dahin als Fehler galt, plötzlich alle Anschauungen umkehrt oder daß ein unscheinbarer und verachteter Gedanke zum Herrscher über ein neues Gedankenreich wird.

George Orwell lo escribió en su libro 1984: "En un tiempo de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.

America was founded out of tax protest. Have they forgotten the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773?

Thirty seconds can be very long sometimes. Long enough to work a miracle or a revolution.

There is the capitalist approach (make it bigger), the technocratic one (make it better), the 'revolutionary' solution (portray the problem as an example of an exploitative system) and the pre-industrial romantic fallacy (don't use it; maybe it will go away by itself). We propose a fifth alternative response: Let's invent a different answer."28

the novel is a vicious attack on the guiding ideology of the party – Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought.

Without execution, the breakthrough thinking breaks down, learning adds no value, people don't meet their stretch goals, and the revolution stops dead in its tracks. What you get is change for the worse, because failure drains the energy from your organization. Repeated failure destroys it.

El secuestro es una contradicción en un país que nació de la lucha contra la esclavitud"

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder