1,549 Quotes About Revolution

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the day when all will be peace, harmony, light, joy, and life, it will come. And it is so that it comes that we are going to die.

Those——"—here he flung out a terrible oath—"those people don't know what their blind hands are sowing. They will know when our power is complete and we begin to mow down their cursed grass. They'll know it then!

Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one's being in the form of labor power sold, which no longer belongs to the individual, but becomes an expression of oneself, a contribution to the common life in which one is reflected, the fulfillment of one's social duty.

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.

We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and poverty.

İnsanın insanı öldürmesi tabiattaki en korkunç cürüm olmalı. Katlanmak çok zor. Ama insanlar alışıyorlar Alex, görsen seyirlik bir hal almış çoktan.İdam sehpalarının etrafında seyyar satıcılar, çoluk çocuk gelen ziyaretçilere simit, çerez, lokum satıyor. Babalar ellerinden tuttukları çocuklarına ölüleri gösteriyorlar, insanların yüzünde akıldışı bir sırıtma var. Gülüyorlar. Delirmemek için kaçmak gerek.