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:
We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
Salvini’s approach [to politics] is winning. Today, the revolution of common sense has begun.
Every town in China should establish a museum about the Cultural Revolution.
The New Deal was the nearest thing to a revolution ever carried out in a democracy.
The social subjugation of woman was the vilest counter-revolution ever carried out.
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.