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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.
-Hubert Humphrey
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
-W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.
-Selma James
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I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
-Thomas Jefferson
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
-Samuel Johnson
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
-Franz Kafka
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Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.
-Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Revolutions are not made for export.
-Nikita Khrushchev
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Riots are the voices of the unheard.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
-Ursula K. LeGuin
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You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
-Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)
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Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
-Percy Wynham Lewis
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At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.
-Karl Liebknecht
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.
-Martin Luther
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I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
-Madonna
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It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
-Ferdinand E. Marcos
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
-Karl Marx
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Books about Revolution
