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:
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable.
Undoubtedly, philosophy caused the Revolution. But what caused philosophy? Theological arrogance.
The Revolution of Lares, more than an uprising for independence, was a rebellion against slavery.
everybody can (now) be an artist. I encouraged that revolution.
Democratic totalitarianism and financial dictatorship exclude social revolution.
Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"Our revolution is a revolution of beauty."
The Scientific Revolution and modern imperialism were inseparable.
Reconstruction should be considered as a "bourgeois revolution."
It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.