“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”
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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?”
Fidel Castro
2 quotes“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”
JFK
2 quotes“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit”
Audre Lorde
2 quotes“Revolution is not a one time event.”
Ursula K. LeGuin
1 quote“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or...”
George Bernard Shaw
1 quote“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
Victor Hugo
1 quote“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It t...”
George Orwell
1 quote“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
Guy de Maupassant
1 quote“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take t...”
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.”