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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?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
-Jane Fonda
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
-Charles James Fox
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
-Erich Fromm
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
-Jean Genet
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
-Kahlil Gibran
The Vision
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
-Johann von Goethe
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
-Germaine Greer
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
-Francois (Pierre Guillaume) Guizot
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When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
-Edward F. Halifax
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
-David Harris
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True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
-Heinrich Heine
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
-Alexander Herzen
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The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
-Eric Hoffer
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
-Eric Hoffer
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
-Abbie Hoffman
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
-Abbie Hoffman
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
-Richard Hooker
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
-Victor Hugo
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
-Victor Hugo
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better -- and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Books about Revolution
