“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”
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Karl Marx
5 quotes“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.”
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.”
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...”
Simone de Beauvoir
1 quote“Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.”
Thomas Paine
1 quote“Kill the king but spare the man.”
George Bernard Shaw
1 quote“The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.”
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 Orwell
1 quote“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
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...”
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...”