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Political literature15 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCWhat is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus · 1951A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong · 1927Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790All 15 quotes →Philosophical literature9 quotes
And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. — Karl Marx · 1845What is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus · 1951Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus · 1951Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah · 1964All 9 quotes →Political speech7 quotes
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro · 1961Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. — Abraham Lincoln · 1848Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy · 1977Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. — Wendell Phillips · 1852Citizens, would you want a revolution without revolution? — Maximilien Robespierre · 1792What a glorious morning is this. — Samuel Adams · 1775All 7 quotes →Dystopian fiction3 quotes
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell · 1945There are only four ways in which a ruling class can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern. These causes do not operate singly, and as a rule all four of them are present in some degree. A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself. — George Orwell · 1949Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935Historical literature2 quotes
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman · 1972If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Allegory1 quote
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell · 1945Economic literature1 quote
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848Feminist literature1 quote
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. — Germaine Greer · 1970