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:
Revolution is the birth to equality and the antithesis to oppression.
Those who make revolutions halfway have done nothing but dig their own graves.
Camera-Phones are at the root of the Citizen-Journalism revolution.
A revolution cannot be judged by the ordinary standards of academic morality.
Fortunes made buying and selling securities have underwritten economic revolutions.
The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back.
Revolution, revolution, and only revolution is our salvation.