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:
Day is breaking
through doors.
Earth has made another revolution.
In a society where Sunday is not sanctified, everything goes into revolution.
Neoconservatives are the boat people of the McGovern revolution.
When the X.500 revolution comes, your name will be lined against the wall and shot.
The evolution of art has nothing to do with the revolution of society.
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol.
India missed the Industrial Revolution; it cannot afford to miss the Computer Revolution.