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Revolution Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
- One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent…
- Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
- We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
- No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.
- By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and…
- How can you make a revolution without executions?
- It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution…
- Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
- When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom…
- A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
- It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
- It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
- We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension of…
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- 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