Quotes about Revolution

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

If, by the mere force of numbers, a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would, if such a right were a vital one.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

Conversion meant a conscious turning away from the old way of life.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ? is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ