Bills Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any…

— Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority;…

— Henry David Thoreau

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern…

— Jean Jaures

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral…

— Abraham Lincoln

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral…

— Abraham Lincoln

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

— Malcolm X

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

— Yoko Ono

“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status quo is…

— Peter Gelderloos

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

— John Updike

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and…

— Emma Goldman

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the…

— Hisham Matar

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

— George Bernard Shaw