1,549 Quotes About Revolution

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

Revolutionaries do not only have different ideas (or even actions) from pseudo-revolutionaries. What they are is different, and the way they act is. They do not try to enrol people in order to represent them and be a power in their name ... Their action is never an attempt to organise others, only to express their own subversive response to the world.

قدر الثورات أن تكون منقوصة.

Un governo che manda al fronte dei quindicenni, con fucili vecchi di quarant'anni, e tiene in retrovia gli uomini piú robusti e le armi piú nuove, ha evidentemente piú paura della rivoluzione che dei fascisti.

She saw and marked the revolutions that had been, and the present seemed to her only a point of rest, from which time was to renew his flight.

Don't listen to anyone but me

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

The era of revolution by military means produced a greater degree of desperation and frustration. This was brought to an end by the people.

In both roles, as journalist and as organizer, I'd learn that it's possible to fall in love with a revolution—then doubt it, fight with it, lose faith in it, and return with a sense of humor and a harder, lasting love. I would have to learn the same thing about church when I was much older, and it would be no easier.