Abolish Quote by George Orwell

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

— Karl Marx

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

— Rebecca West

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

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is…

— Madame de Stael

I'm just not convinced that the British people I know and love are interested in revolution.

— David Lammy

The United States was founded on a revolution that abolished the monarchy, aristocracy, titles and primogeniture. Britain may be able in the future to…

— Linda Colley

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

— Andy Zaltzman

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

— Alfred Douglas

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has…

— John C. Calhoun

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

— William Hamilton

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

— Shashi Tharoor