Revolution Quotes

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite!

Karl Marx

Revolutions are not made they come.

Wendell Phillips

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

James J. Walker

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Richard S. Childs

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

T.S Eliot

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

William Hazlitt

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Andrei Voznesensky

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Nikita Khrushchev

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

Big Brother is watching you.

Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles.

Aristotle

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Every reform was once a private opinion and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All reformers are bachelors.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

Henry David Thoreau

Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Aristotle

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

Daniel O'Connell

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Jacques Danton

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries unite!

Karl Marx

Revolutions are not made they come.

Wendell Phillips

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

James J. Walker

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

Richard S. Childs

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

T.S Eliot

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

William Hazlitt

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

George Bernard Shaw

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

Andrei Voznesensky

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Thomas Jefferson

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Nikita Khrushchev

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes

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