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Revolution48 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787No 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 · 1951All 48 quotes →Politics16 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCA state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara · 1967Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. — Germaine Greer · 1970All 16 quotes →Political theory9 quotes
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCEvery revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus · 1951Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt · 1970A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930All 9 quotes →French Revolution5 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best! — Charles James Fox · 1789Citizens, would you want a revolution without revolution? — Maximilien Robespierre · 1792If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Political progress4 quotes
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. — Karl Marx · 1845A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro · 1961Revolution do not stand still. — Rosa Luxemburg · 1918Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy · 1977Causes of revolution3 quotes
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. — Aristotle · 350 BCInferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they might be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle · 350 BCIf the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Progress3 quotes
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it. — Karl Marx · 1845A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro · 1961Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901Revolutionaries3 quotes
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus · 1951The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt · 1970Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901Seeds of revolution3 quotes
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCA state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Revolutions 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 · 1852American Revolution2 quotes
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the Minds and Hearts of the People. — John Adams · 1818What a glorious morning is this. — Samuel Adams · 1775Conditions for revolution2 quotes
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara · 1967We are engaged in a spiritual war. We are not living in normal times. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1921Oppression2 quotes
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. — Henry David Thoreau · 1848Rebellion2 quotes
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787What is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus · 1951Resisting authority2 quotes
Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. — Roger Casement · 1917All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. — Henry David Thoreau · 1848Revolutionary politics2 quotes
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara · 1967If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Tyranny2 quotes
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. — Aristotle · 350 BCRevolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903America1 quote
Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935American politics1 quote
Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935Anti-clericalism1 quote
And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772Anti-monarchism1 quote
And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772Authoritarianism1 quote
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy, and creates dissension. — Mao Zedong · 1937Changing of generations1 quote
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset · 1930Civilization1 quote
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. — Havelock Ellis · 1922Class conflict1 quote
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. — Karl Marx · 1848Communism1 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 · 1945Conscientious people1 quote
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement—but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. — Joseph Conrad · 1911Conservatism1 quote
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt · 1970Counterfactual history1 quote
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Elites1 quote
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G.M. Trevelyan · 1942Government1 quote
Any 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 · 1848