Quotes on Revolution

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution _x000D_ A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it _x000D_ And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built _x000D_ And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods _x000D_ And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are _x000D_ As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?