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Revolution Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
- Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
- In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every…
- With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
- Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
- Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,…
- Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have…
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
More Revolution Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams