Revolutions never go backward!
Quotations about Revolutions
One eats, another watches; that's how revolutions are born. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ~ Italo Calvino
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ~ Abbie Hoffman
Revolution is the larva of civilization. ~ Victor Hugo
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man. ~ Benito Mussolini
The next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas. ~ Bill Hicks
The history of the human race always has been, and most likely always will be, that of evolution and revolution. ~ Lewis F.Korns
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. ~ Charles James Fox
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. ~ Thomas Paine
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. ~ Emma Goldman
A constitution imperiled justifies revolution. ~ Edward Counsel
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ~ Erich Fromm
Stimulants do not give strength, comets do not give heat, and revolutions do not give liberty. ~ Philarete Chasles
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. ~ Fidel Castro
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. ~ Havelock Ellis
No revolution can be made with silk gloves. ~ Joseph Stalin
One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next. ~ Will Rogers
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another. ~ John Updike
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. ~ Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ~ Abbie Hoffman
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ~ Edmund Burke
Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? ~ Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary. ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~ Eric Hoffer
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. ~ Vladimir Lenin
To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power. ~ Jane Fonda
The mills of our revolution grind well. ~ Joseph Stalin
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned. ~ Georges Jacques Danton
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. ~ Che Guevara
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ~ Aristotle
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. ~ Franz Kafka
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. ~ Mao Zedong
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ Tom Stoppard
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. ~ Fidel Castro
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. ~ Huey Newton
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. ~ Eugene V. Debs
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. ~ Aristotle
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ~ Toni Cade Bambara
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. ~ Wynton Marsalis
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ~ Vladimir Lenin
Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. ~ Albert Camus
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? E.H. Chapin
Revolution is not a dinner party. ~ Mao Zedong
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. ~ Fred Hampton
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought. ~ Kim Jong
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. ~ William Henry Seward
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! ~ Sun Yat-sen
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ~ Germaine Greer
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Revolutions are not made; they come. ~ Wendell Phillips
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. ~ Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
Revolutions never go backward. ~ Wendell Phillips
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