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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.

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"Free markets are the real people's revolution."

Jeffrey Tucker

One can equip himself with the best technology of the era, but still miss the revolution entirely.

Brig. Gen. Eran Ortal

The social and economic revolution of the farm workers is well under way and will not be stopped until they receive equality.

Dolores Huerta

Indigo was precisely the sort of person who would declare that a just revolution was worth a million deaths. As long as she wasn’t one of them, of course.

Genevieve Cogman The Secret Chapter (2019)

I am fervent partisan to the expropriation of Church property even in the case that no revolution might occur.

Camilo Torres Restrepo

During this era of the fourth industrial revolution, what can African institutions do to ensure that they maintain their relevance?

Aderemi Atayero

Revolution is not good for the country. What we need is to support the President.

Uche Nwosu

The role of the artist is to make revolution irresistible.

Kudzanai Chiurai

I have seen many changes, the Second World War, the Algerian revolution, the beginnings of music hall, without ever yielding to any power.

El Hachemi Guerouabi

Art should be the revolution itself, and not a tool for the revolution.

Mónica de Miranda

Furthermore, few, if any, violent revolutions have been successful unless the violent minority had the sympathy and support of the non-resisting majority.

Martin Luther King Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change.

Isidore Isou Venom and Eternity (1951)

I want to make perfectly clear the act that the world is in the fringe, in the penumbra, of a tremendous Revolution, with a big R.

Rufus Jones What Will Get Us Ready (1944)

An efficient man is a rebellious man. And anything that raises the efficiency of the working class will speed the revolution.

Kate Richards O'Hare Booze and Revolution (1915)

Revolution is a complete change, an overturning of dead soil, a new way of life, with new government, new laws.

Juan González The Vote or the Gun (1970)

The revolution opened doors for us and allowed an enormous social mobility. Many walls that blocked communication were demolished, and taboos were cast out.

Nancy Morejón Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution (2007)

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.

Martin Luther King Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)

Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?

Richard Dawkins

I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it ... All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

Vladimir Lenin

I am surprised at the suddenness as well as the greatness of this revolution... It is the will of Heaven that the two countries should be sundered forever.

John Adams

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