Quotes on Revolution

What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine._x000D_ _x000D_ It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,_x000D_ _x000D_ but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

Revolutions are not made for export.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.