Quotes About Revolution

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of producing and living in common.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise

When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.

The nation-king cannot exercise its sovereignty itself; it is obliged to delegate it to agents: this is constantly reiterated by those who seek to win its favor. Be these agents five, ten, one hundred, or a thousand, of what consequence is the number; and what matters the name? It is always the government of man, the rule of will and caprice. I ask what this pretended revolution has revolutionized?

Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion, and by violation of its most sacred rights. In this revolution, the idea of justice spread to an extent that had not before been dreamed of, never to return to its original limits. Heretofore justice had existed only for the masters; it then commenced to exist for the slaves.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Ninguna revolución ha logrado traer prosperidad a América Latina. Sólo ha traído corrupción (la revolución ha derivado en robolución), dictadura y privilegios para la casta gobernante a expensas del grueso de la población sumergida en la pobreza. Nuestras revoluciones no han producido otra cosa que miseria moral, política, económica y cultural.

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

Revolusi Perancis, mendudukkan harga manusia pada tempatnya yang tepat. Dengan hanya memandang manusia pada satu sisi, sisi penderitaan semata, orang akan kehilangan sisinya yang lain. Dari sisi penderitaan saja, yang datang pada kita hanya dendam, dendam semata...

Seluruh kedudukan yang enak diambil orang-orang tua. Mereka hanya pandai korupsi... angkatan tua itu sungguh bobrok. Hanya angkatan tua yahg korup dan mengajak korup! Angkatan muda membuat revolusi melahirkan sejarah.

Berkhianat pada revolusi ini berarti berkhianat pada diri sendiri, pada publik yang membayarnya.

Revolusi, dia adalah guru. Dia adalah penderitaan. Tetapi dia pun adalah harapan. Jangan khianati revolusi! Kembali ia pandangi dua orang tua itu, yang mungkin beberapa tahun lagi tewas digulung maut. Namun mereka meletakkan harapannya pada revolusi. Betapa mereka mengagumi lembaran uang, perwujudan revolusi.

Revolusi atau perjuangan apa saja bisa lahir dan mencapai keagungannya kalau setiap pribadi tampil berani

Dia sangat cinta pada republik, revolusi, dia mencintai kampung halamannya, biarpun busuk-busuk membumbungkan gas lumpur dan kotorannya sendiri.

Apa yang ditakuti bu? Kita semua hidup terus menerus dalam ketakutan. Apa kalian biasanya ketakutan? Tidak ada. Kalau revolusi menang, tidak seorang pun perlu takut lagi.

Kadang-kadang memang terasa olehnya bahwa heroisme dan patriotisme wanita di jaman revolusi ini terletak pada kepalangmerahan saja! Tapi ia tak akan meninggalkan kejujurannya. Ia cintai kejujurannya. Dan ia yakin melalui kejujurannya ia pun dapat berbakti kepada revolusi. Ia merasa dirinya pejuang, berjuang dengan caranya sendiri.

Revolusi ini tidak memberi sesuatu pun, dia minta kepada setiap orang, segala-galanya.

The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.

Rock Steady' by Aretha Franklin, 'Cold Sweat' by James [Brown], all the Stax records, Ike and Tina Turner – we took it for granted, thinking that music would always be like that. That was just normal to us.

Revolutions begin in the best heads, and run steadily down to the populace.

That we are utopians is well known. So utopian are we that we go the length of believing that the revolution can and ought to assure shelter, food and clothes to all – an idea extremely displeasing to middle-class citizens, whatever their party colour, for they are quite alive to the fact that it is not easy to keep the upper hand of a people whose hunger is satisfied.