Revolution Quotes

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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if… — Edward Abbey
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. — Edward Abbey
There never was a good war or a bad revolution. — Edward Abbey
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country. — Edward Abbey
The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money… — Benjamin Franklin
We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.' — George Washington
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… — Thomas Paine
The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as… — James Madison
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in… — Will Durant
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. — Herbert Marcuse
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that. — Karl Marx
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,… — Karl Marx
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… — Karl Marx
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. — Hannah Arendt
However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the plain… — Louis Althusser
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear. — Alexander Blok
The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or… — Brian Aldiss

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