Quotes about Revolution

Philosopher

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

Actions - Citizenry - Espionage - Humility - Incapacity - Man - Meaning - Mistrust - People - Revolution - Spirits - War

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Mao Zedong

Founding Father of the People's Republic of China

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

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Fidel Castro

Former Prime Minister of Cuba

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

Leadership - Revolution - Strength

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Che Guevara

Revolutionary, Physician, Author, Diplomat, Military Theorist

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government.

Leadership - Revolution

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Politician, Political Theorist

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.

Ability - Compromise - Leadership - Politics - Revolution

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief.

Cowardice - Help - Honesty - Knowledge - Making - Revolution - Teaching

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Anarchy - Revolution

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Art - Genuine - Product - Revolution

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Rajneesh

Guru

If you take the responsibility for your life you can start changing it. Slow will be the change, only in the course of time will you start; moving into the world of light and crystallization, but once you are crystallized you will know what real revolution is. Then share your revolution with others; it has to go that way, from heart to heart.

Movement - Real - Revolution - Sharing - World

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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Andrew Jackson

Soldier, Former President of the United States

You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.

Bank - Eternity - History - Injustice - Mornings - People - Revolution

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Empires - Loss - Revolution

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Atheism - Ideology - Law - Man - Revolution - War

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomer, Mathematician

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Earth - Motion - Movement - Planet - Prevent - Revolution

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Man - Revolution

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Alexander Hamilton

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Anarchy - Disgust - Distraction - Education - Extreme - Feelings - Impossible - Improvement - Knowledge - Republic - Revolution - Sensuality - State - Vibrations

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Che Guevara

Revolutionary, Physician, Author, Diplomat, Military Theorist

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

Human - Liberty - Revolution

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Leadership - Lie - Principle - Revolution

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Man - Revolution - Right

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Revolutions go not backward.

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