You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice.
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.
Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.
As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. . . Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.
I don't want to create a revolution — I just want to create a few more films.
The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.
Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.
Real revolution starts with learning.
The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.
The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.