Revolution Socialism Quotes

#1. But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Jose Marti

#2. The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. The Revolution is indeed living thorough the hard times of transition and sacrifice. The Cubans themselves have learned that socialism is built with clenched teeth and that revolution is no evening stroll. But afterall, if the future came on a platter, it would not be of this world.

Eduardo Galeano

#4. I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Michael Collins

#5. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Leon Trotsky

#6. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Malcolm X

#7. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#8. The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'

Adam Michnik

#9. We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

Harold Wilson

#10. Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Adam Smith

#11. Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#12. Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Bertrand Russell

#13. National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.

Adolf Hitler

#14. The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

Nikita Khrushchev

#15. I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Tony Judt

#16. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Karl Marx

#17. Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Leon Trotsky

#18. The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.

Kim Jong Il

#19. Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

A.E. Samaan

#20. The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba
yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

#21. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

Michael Parenti

#22. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Karl Marx

#23. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

#24. When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

#25. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#26. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Orwell

#27. A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

George Orwell

#28. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Norman Mailer

#29. As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

Ralph Raico

#30. Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Kjiva

#31. The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Albert Einstein

#32. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#33. Men were springing up, a black avenging host was slowly germinating in the furrows, thrusting upward for the harvests of future ages. And very soon their germination would crack the earth asunder.

Emile Zola

#34. We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#35. I have heard that all ideas of equality are visionary - that they can never be realized - and I believe it. But surely, though there must be hewers of wood, and drawers of water, they ought to have the absolute necessaries of life.

Charlotte Turner Smith

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

Pierre-jospeh Proudhon

#37. The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Jose Marti

#38. Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

A.E. Samaan

#39. I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

Howard Fast

#40. When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.

Murray Kempton