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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. -- Mao Tse-Tung
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one -- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another. -- John Updike
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts. -- Bobby Seale
Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody; -- Robert A. Heinlein
Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics. -- Wallace Stevens
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. -- Mao Zedong
By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. -- Bhagat Singh
You don't pick your revolution. It picks you. -- Daniel H. Wilson
There are those special projects that don't ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and 'Revolution' is one of those projects. -- Daniella Alonso
One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way. -- Mircea Andreescu
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. -- Fidel Castro
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution -- Fidel Castro
Real revolution starts with learning ... -- Tim Mcilrath
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. -- Victor Hugo
Revolution flashed as revelationary as revelation had been revolutionary. -- R. Vision
The revolution starts now. -- Steve Earle
The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall. -- Ernesto Che Guevara
I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away. -- Chuck D
I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want ... -- Dan Bern
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. -- Ambrose Bierce
A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time. -- Bassem Youssef
Revolution means turning the wheel. -- Igor Stravinsky
Only from God does true revolution come ... the definitive way to change the world. -- Pope Benedict Xvi
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. -- Fidel Castro
Revolution must take place within one's own mind. -- Lionel Suggs
Revolutions 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
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! -- August Strindberg
Revolution is the larva of civilization. -- Victor Hugo
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. -- G.k. Chesterton
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. -- Ameen Rihani
The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow. -- Bryant Mcgill
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It takes a revolution, to create a solution -- Bob Marley
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. -- Albert Camus
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake. -- Walter Benjamin
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. -- Angela Davis
To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. -- Ernest Mandel
The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. -- Georg Buchner
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Every revolution believes it can return something that has been lost, but nothing is ever the same. The only thing that edures are people. -- Alex London
Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ... -- Malcolm X
Imagination ... is the irrepressible revolutionist. -- Wallace Stevens
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up. -- Vladimir Lenin
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. -- George Bernard Shaw
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. -- Barbara Deming
We are revolutionaries. -- Stokely Carmichael
If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about. -- Albert Meltzer
How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself -- Leo Tolstoy
A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age. -- Charles Eisenstein
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. -- Edmund Burke
Revolution consists not in the new class commanding, governing with the aid of the old state machine, but in this class smashing this machine and commanding, governing with the aid of a new machine. -- Vladimir Lenin
I was born in revolution. -- Mary Harris Jones
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. -- H. Rap Brown
All 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
The time has come for the greatest revolution of all times. -- Kedar Joshi
When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind. -- Immortal Technique
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again. -- Jose Marti
I do love a revolution! -- Graham Heywood
The real revolution is the revolution of values -- Peter Joseph
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. -- William Godwin
Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it must be that it is. -- Victor Hugo
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution. -- John Lennon
Revolution is the industry of young men. -- Craig Johnson
The revolution starts at the bottom. -- Yvon Chouinard
Revolutions are not made, they come. -- Wendell Phillips
History is a relay of revolutions. -- Saul Alinsky
The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children of the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky.The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy. -- Avijeet Das
The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate. -- Karl Hess
There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture ... -- Charles A. Reich
The reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate. -- Rita Mae Brown
History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. -- Jerzy Peterkiewicz
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. -- Alan Greenspan
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world. -- John Lennon
The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day. -- Che Guevara
The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day -- Ernesto Che Guevara
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. -- Victor Hugo
Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling becomes an idea, when impulse leads to concerted action. This is the moment of revolution. -- Albert Camus
Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late -- John Buchanan
Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on institutions -- Max Stirner
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living. -- Ziggy Marley
Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business. -- Garet Garrett
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. -- Damian Marley
Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart. -- Shahla Khan
There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's the occasion that makes the revolution. -- Machado De Assis
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience. -- Mao Zedong
Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are. -- Joseph Goebbels
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death. -- Octavio Paz
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. -- Manuel Gonzalez Flores
In a revolution, one triumphs or dies. -- Che Guevara
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected. -- Herman Gorter
Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution. -- Alex Jackson
We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing. -- George C. Marshall
