Revolution Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. (Aristotle)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. View quote
John F. Kennedy
A revolution is not a trail of roses.... A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. View quote
Fidel Castro
First, utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. View quote
Che Guevara
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. View quote
Germaine Greer
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. View quote
Fidel Castro
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. View quote
Georg Büchner
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. (Ignazio Silone)
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The seed of revolution is repression. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. View quote
Paul Gauguin
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. View quote
Franz Kafka
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? View quote
Dorothy Day
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. View quote
Georg Büchner
The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children. View quote
Georg Büchner
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. (Henry Miller)
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
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. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements. View quote
Aravind Adiga
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. View quote
Abbie Hoffman