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Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE…

— Rebecca Solnit

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train…

— Mercy Otis Warren

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

— Francois Duvalier

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself…

— Karl Marx

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary…

— Emma Goldman

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“...grown up with very bad contemporary literature, and they find it much more fifficult to approach earlier writing than we do. The more we…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to…

— Lu Xun

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

— Samora Machel

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

— Wyndham Lewis