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 information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
This is not a Budget, but a revolution; a social and political revolution of the first magnitude.
The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution.
The next revolution in scientific discovery will depend on scientific interdependence.
Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.
Whoever is closer to the wheels of the revolution, the more dangers lie in wait for him/her.
What's great today is that it's the artists who are keeping the flame of the revolution alive.
Customers can be asked about a product's evolution, but not its revolution.
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
The Revolution is so that people can live, not so that they can die!