Revolution Quotes - Page 39

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank and Jordan could then be united. There is already a Palestinian majority in Jordan, and there is enough room for everyone there. That would be the best revolution I could imagine.

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument and they start having fish on them.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.