Revolution Quotes - Page 36

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of a ball gown is not in itself a modern concept, and women need to wear that for a certain presence in Hollywood. I'm also aware that a starlet might go to more than one place that night so the piece could also offer, maybe not a revolution, but an evolution.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

I was born in revolution.

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.