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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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Most quoted on revolution:

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"The life you are dreaming of can be achieved not by miracles, but by revolution."

Abdullah Öcalan

What's the point of a revolution
without general
copulation copulation copulation

Peter Weiss Marat/Sade (1963)

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools. Now we're having weekly shootings. We had the '60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

Christine O'Donnell

We are confident that our revolution has already succeeded and that the regime of Saleh has in effect, already collapsed.

Tawakkol Karman Our revolution's doing what Saleh can't – uniting Yemen (2011)

Nilsen looked up slowly. His face was as doubtful as that of a political prisoner who has just been informed that the revolution has made him president.

David Drake Men Hunting Things (1988)

It was crucial. It was an essential component of the revolution. All this is about rights.

Aida Seif el-Dawla

...scientific enterprise, according to Kuhn revolution is exceptional and, indeed, extra-scientiﬁc, and criticism is, in ‘normal’ times, anathema.

Imre Lakatos

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

Charles Baudelaire L'art romantique (1869)

The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Edward Abbey A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

Edward Heath

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutions around the corner.

Slavoj Žižek

I well recolect you among others of the unfortunate — am sorry to observe that such misfortunes Generally take place on revolutions, and often very unjustly.

Daniel Morgan Letter to a Quaker (1798)

Now is the time for us to make America the country that the vast majority of our people want it to be. It will take a political revolution to make the change.

Bernie Sanders Preface to Outsider in the White House (2015)

Ideas of the left give birth to revolutions. Revolutions give birth to ideas of the right.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977)

The difference between 1959 and 1966 is highlighted by the peregrination, it is revolution-the farm workers have been organized.

Dolores Huerta

Education is the first step in revolution. And armed self-defense is the first step of education for armed revolution.

Juan González Armarse Para Defenderse (1970)

When you change the culture of a company, it's never a revolution. It's an evolution.

Benedetto Vigna

death is where
jimi hendrix is,
where our revolution
ended up.

Sapphire

You should pay attention to state affairs and carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through to the end!

Mao Zedong Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)

The basic ideological programme of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution is 'to combat selfishness and criticize revisionism.'

Mao Zedong Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)

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