Quotes About Revolution

in April, the president-elect had stopped at Morris's opulent residence. "The treasury, Morris, will of course be your berth," Washington confided. "After your invaluable services as financier of the Revolution, no one can pretend to contest the office of the secretary of the treasury with you.

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Perhaps the generation that will genuinely transform the Arab world has not yet arrived.

CD. The Summer of Love. The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company.

When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers.

that changes everything.

The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

In 1794, Lavoisier was arrested with the rest of the association and quickly sentenced to death. Ever the dedicated scientist, he requested time to complete some of his research so that it would be available to posterity. To that the presiding judge famously replied, "The republic has no need of scientists.

Socialism," said Rosa Luxemburg, "does not mean getting together in a parliament and deciding on laws. For us socialism means the smashing of the ruling classes with all the brutality that the proletariat is able to develop in its struggle.

During the twenties, Germany's youngsters (both rightist and leftist) were in the vanguard of the growing rebellion against the Weimar Republic. The youngsters were rebelling against the establishment in the name of every fundamental idea which they had been taught by every influential spokesman of that establishment

Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.

This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.

Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over

All successful revolutionary leaders have to worry about how to stabilise the new regimes that they create. After the American Revolutionary War, the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris had argued for the establishment of a hereditary senate in a still insecure United States quite as fervently as Bolívar did in Venezuela;

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.