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:
What did Brandreth do more than was done by the Whigs at the Revolution?
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
The function of revolutions is to destroy the illusions that created them.
The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.
The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.
Conservatism and Pig-ism are the same: both enemies of revolution.
Iranian Revolution is the symbol of the denial of freedom and republic.