Revolution Quotes

• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Faults

  "Conversations with Goethe". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, 1836.

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• By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• 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.

  Malcolm X

  Peaceful, Turns, Cheeks

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• All revolutions devour their own children.

  Ernst Rohm

  Children, Politics, Rebellious

  Ernst Rohm's remark in prison to Hans Frank (June 30, 1934), as quoted in Joachim C. Fest "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership", 1999.

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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memorable, Political Revolution, Revolutionary Leaders

  New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

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• I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they wished to represent the phenomena of the stars, I thought that I likewise would readily be allowed to test whether, by assuming some motion of the Earth's, more dependable representations than theirs could be found for the revolutions of the heavenly spheres.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Stars, Science, Opportunity

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1976). “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”, David & Charles Publishers

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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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 exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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• You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

  Fred Hampton

  Revolutionary

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspiration, Successful, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

  Che Guevara

  Fall, Revolutionary Leaders, Apples

  Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

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• A failing state cannot stop a revolution whose time has come.

  Ron Paul

  Failing, States

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• Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  Bob Marley

  Encouraging, Memorial Day, Freedom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Differences, Making A Difference, Persons

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• Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lions, Enough, Kitten

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “What Matters Most is How Well You”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• Every generation needs a new revolution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Famous Inspirational, Needs

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• The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Hopeless, Revolt

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• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  George Orwell

  Order, Doe, Rebellious

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Rebellious, Rebellion, Burden

  Man and Superman (1903) "The Revolutionist's Handbook," foreword

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• The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

  John F. Kennedy

  Independent, Past, Men

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

  George Papandreou

  Needs

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• We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

  Unknown

  Government, Years, Needs

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• Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Hopeful, Able

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