Quotes on Revolution

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

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.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.