Top 100 Quotes About The Revolution
#1. It must live on. The revolution must not end here.
Billy Roper
#2. The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.
Karl Hess
#3. For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.
Vir Das
#4. Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
Edwidge Danticat
#5. If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.
Assata Shakur
#6. The Revolution was a lesson in the power of evil to replace idealism, and Bonaparte was its ideal pupil.
Paul Johnson
#7. Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.
Wendell Berry
#9. Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.
Michael Hardt
#10. The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.
Gil Scott-Heron
#11. The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.
Peter Hitchens
#12. Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution [Wii] controller to become the standard in video game controls.
Satoru Iwata
#13. When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,
James F. Cooper
#15. The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany
George Will
#16. The mortals don't realize they are funding the Amazon kingdom. Soon, we'll be richer than any mortal nation. Then - when the weak mortals depend on us for everything - the revolution will begin!" "What are you going to do?" Frank grumbled. "Cancel free shipping?
Rick Riordan
#17. No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
#18. In 1958, a year before the revolution, Magnum wanted to send me to Cuba because they had contacts with the rebels. I'd just spent six months in South America and said 'No', so I missed everything.
Rene Burri
#19. Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way now!
Paul Goodman
#20. Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.
David McCullough
#21. The Revolution was a grand thing!" continued Monsieur Pierre, betraying by this desperate and provocative proposition his extreme youth and his wish to express all that was in his mind.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
Abbie Hoffman
#24. Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
Kenneth Rexroth
#25. The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
Herman Gorter
#26. To understand the nature of the Revolution we must call it "progress"; and we may define progress by the word "tomorrow".
Victor Hugo
#27. Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.
Samora Machel
#28. The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
Laurent Fabius
#29. And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
Francesco Petrarca
#30. Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.
William Shakespeare
#31. There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
#33. Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!
Sukarno
#34. Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.
Ismail Haniyeh
#35. We won the war , the revolution begins now
Che Guevera
#36. Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.
Jeremy Enigk
#37. One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.
Mohammad Marandi
#38. The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#39. Jesus died for our sins not so that we could sort out abstract ideas, but so that we, having been put right, could become part of God's plan to put his whole world right. That is how the revolution works.
N. T. Wright
#40. For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.
Francois Furet
#41. It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.
Che Guevara
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Shilpi
#43. Edmund Burke in his critique of the French Revolution. Any society, he wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France, which destroys the fabric of its state, must soon be "disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality".
Tony Judt
#44. A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#46. Become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution. The person
Suzanne Collins
#47. In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.
Thomas A. Edison
#48. We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.
Cesar Chavez
#49. The Revolution won't be televised. It's already available on Amazon in ebook format.
Kenya Wright
#50. Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#51. After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
Barbara Deming
#52. I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
Alma Guillermoprieto
#53. The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
Michael Moore
#54. Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago
#55. The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution
Bryant McGill
#57. You don't have to be a spiritual seeker, you can be a businessman dealing with the revolution in computers. You could be a congressman, or a scientist. No matter what area of life and endeavor we are in we are seeing the signs of new-paradigm thinking.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
Nadia Comaneci
#59. It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.
Jack London
#60. The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.
Fidel Castro
#61. You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton
#62. I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.
David McCullough
#63. O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.
William Shakespeare
#64. I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
#65. At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.
Azar Nafisi
#66. As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiting the resignation of their repressive governor.
Diana Denham
#67. The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Che Guevara
#68. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#69. A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
Seth Godin
#70. One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.
Fidel Castro
#71. Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#72. Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights.
Dan Mathews
#73. My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
Owain Yeoman
#74. With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution ... This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.
Alexander Blok
#75. Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?
George Orwell
#76. The real revolution is the revolution of values
Peter Joseph
#77. The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back
Gertrude Mongella
#78. Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
Edmund Morgan
#79. Get plugged in at your church. Find a way to invest yourself. Let's change the church's problem from 'Where do we find the help we need?' to 'What do we do with all the help we have?' The revolution begins now; and it starts with you.
Tyler Edwards
#80. One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
Fareed Zakaria
#81. Because of the revolution of the Earth upon its axis, a new degree of the zodiac rises every four minutes, and thus even the horoscopes of twins may differ considerably.
Max Heindel
#82. If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.
David Ignatius
#83. Aren't you sentient human beings? Or are you living like animals for the moment only? In that case by all means indulge in charity and cure each petty suffering that meets your eye; but don't meddle with the revolution, for its task is to cure all sufferings present and to come.
Albert Camus
#84. Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.
Che Guevara
#85. The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg
#86. I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.
Ameen Rihani
#87. Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Christopher Dawson
#88. If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.
Marquis De Lafayette
#89. LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
A.E. Samaan
#90. The Salafists are trying to abort the revolution and make it religious, though the revolution started secular. There was not a single Islamic slogan. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.
Nawal El Saadawi
#91. For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.
Gioconda Belli
#92. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day
Ernesto Che Guevara
#93. The record, said Finnerty, and he seemed satisfied with the toast. He had got what he wanted from the revolution, Paul supposed
a chance to give a savage blow to a close little society that made no comfortable place for him.
Kurt Vonnegut
#94. The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.
Russell Brand
#95. Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
Mao Zedong
#96. The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.
Ernesto Cardenal
#97. The revolution will be no re-run brothers,
The revolution will be live.
Gil Scott-Heron
#98. Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
Terry Eagleton
#99. It's useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.
The Invisible Committee
#100. I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.
John Lennon
