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Revolution Quotes by Karl Marx
- ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789...…
- ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle…
- In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to…
- Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
- And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives,…
- Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than…
- In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of…
- England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the…
- Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen…
- Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
- The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
- Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on…
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