Revolution Quotes
Lenin has the most entries, followed by Che Guevara, Abbie Hoffman, Mao and Marx. Three sourced lines come from different directions. Bakunin, in 1868, describes a revolution organized from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre. Erich Fromm, in Escape from Freedom (1941), says the successful revolutionary is a statesman and the unsuccessful one a criminal. Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed (1974), says you cannot buy the Revolution or make it, you can only be it.
Flagged: Samuel Adams is credited with a line about an irate, tireless minority setting brush fires, and Henry Ford with one about revolution before morning if people knew about the money system. Both are marked misattributed. A disputed line about a National-Socialist revolution is credited to Hitler.
Most quoted on revolution:
"The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear."
Suddenly he didn’t care if the revolution were lost or won, only that it be over.
The fourth industrial revolution is here upon the world but that Nigeria has been lagging.
I have been through a revolution, and I am convinced that I am no revolutionist.
The Cultural Revolution can only be the emancipation of the masses by the masses.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
In the two months following the revolution the industrialists have robbed the whole of Russia.
It is a universal revolution and will, accordingly, have a universal range.
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
Remember this revolution is born out of love for my people not hatred for others.