Revolution Quotes (page 2)

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• men
• thinking
• thoughts

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. Kwame Nkrumah

• goals
• goal
• revolutions

Revolution is not a goal in itself. Ernest Mandel

• party
• instrumentation
• likeness

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Ernest Mandel

• history
• most
• individually

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. Norman Mailer

• today
• revolutions
• becomes

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. Wyndham Lewis

• children
• own
• likeness

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. Georg Buchner

• hope
• hoped
• revolutions

Revolutions are born of hope. Crane Brinton

• celebration
• longer
• revolutions

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. Pierre Boulez

• made
• exports
• exporting

Revolutions are not made for export. Nikita Khrushchev

• change
• political
• politeness

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce

• self
• beginnings
• begining

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. Toni Cade Bambara

• spirit
• makes
• buys

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. Ursula K. Le Guin

• hope
• end
• law

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. Ursula K. Le Guin

• giving
• work
• personality

We will endeavor to halt the Industrial Revolution before it is too late, to regulate population at a reasonable point, to eventually replace quantitative money with qualitative money, to decentralize, to conserve resources. The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to controlled proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier. And you don't give a shit who makes it, who works in... William S. Burroughs

• determination
• small
• party

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the... George Orwell