1,549 Quotes About Revolution

Well, it’s the story of the founding of a New Jersey town, and its citizens, and the American Revolution. With some singing and dancing and a turntable.

شعبنا لا يثور أبدا وإذا ثار فسرعان ما يتخلى عن الثورة ، شعبنا ليس على استعداد لدفع ثمن الحرية

Revolution is the harmony of form and color and everything exists, and moves, under only one law: Life. Nobody is separate by anybody else. Nobody fights for himself. Everything is All and One. Anguish and pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence.

To make the private into something public is an action that has terrific repercussions in the pre-invented world.

You're looking a bit bolshy. [...] Like a Bolshevik, [...] Someone about to start a revolution.

A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people fine manners.

While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret each other; and even parties directly opposite in principle will sometimes concur in pushing forward the same movement with very different views, and with the hope of its producing very different consequences.

It ensured that I'd never think that patriotism and dissent were opposites.

It’s a collection of pointers that treat the margins as seriously as the noisy center. For change has always happened in the margins, across human history, and it’s happening there now. Seismic shifts in common life, as in geophysical reality, begin in spaces and cracks.