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Revolution Quotes by Leon Trotsky
- All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party…
- The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the…
- Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers…
- To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The essence of every revolution consisted…
- The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership…
- If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any…
- Revolutions are always verbose.
More Revolution Quotes
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — 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 industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- 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 Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton
- Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare