1,549 Quotes About Revolution

The taste death cannot comes from the recipy of cowerdness.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Do you really know the most cursed sin in this world is to be poor? Yes, poverty is a sin; it is a punishment!

What a revolution in her ideas!

Bold and humanizing ideas need no supernatural nonsense to manifest in the world, they always manage to find mortal vessels to exist across time. Individuals die, not ideas.

Ideas that have outlived their day may hobble about the world for years, but it is hard for them ever to lead or dominate life. Such ideas never gain complete possession of a man, or they gain possession only of incomplete people.

A curious leveling takes place: the common people learn words and ideas hitherto not familiar and not interesting and discuss them like intellectuals while others neglect their usual concerns - art, philosophy, scholarship - because there is only one compelling topic, the revolutionary Idea.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.