Revolution Quotes

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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. — Fidel Castro
A revolution is not a bed of roses. — Fidel Castro
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. — Paul Cezanne
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? — Nicolas Chamfort
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with… — Christiane Amanpour
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity… — B R Ambedkar
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is… — Maya Angelou
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. — Susan B. Anthony
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses. — Alexander Hamilton
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise… — Federica Montseny
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes… — Norma Kamali
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring… — Unknown Author
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such… — Henry David Thoreau

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