“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm”
Others on Revolution
Karl Marx
5 quotes“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
Lenin
3 quotes“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”
JFK
2 quotes“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit”
Martin Luther King
2 quotes“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a r...”
Audre Lorde
2 quotes“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Fidel Castro
2 quotes“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
Will Rogers
1 quote“One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.”
Leon Trotsky
1 quote“In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.”
Martin Luther
1 quote“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a r...”
Richelle Mead
1 quote“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
Erich Fromm
1 quote“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Simone de Beauvoir
1 quote“Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.”