Russian Revolution Quotes

• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  Alexander Kerensky

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Movement, Revolutionary

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Degrees, World, Revolution

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• The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

  Whittaker Chambers

  War, Fruit, Firsts

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.7, Regnery Publishing

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• [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Revolution, Generations

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• Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

  Isadora Duncan

  Men, Fellow Man, Revolution

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• The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.

  Allen W. Wood

  Unions, Revolution, Generations

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.

  Winston Churchill

  Needs, Revolution, Creation

  "Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

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• In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their nationalism. In the 20th century, ideology came to the fore, largely, but not exclusively, as a result of the Russian Revolution and we have fascism, communism and liberal democracy competing with each other. Well that's pretty much over.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  People, Democracy, Trying

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Party, Ideas

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

  James P. Cannon

  Revolution, Doctrine, Restoration

  James P. Cannon (2002). “History of American Trotskyism, The, 1928-38: Report of a Participant”

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• I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Want, Revolution

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

  Helen Mirren

  Military, Army, Men

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel.

  David Icke

  Business, War, Believe

  "And the Truth Shall Set You Free". Book by David Icke, 1995.

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• According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been
  financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

  Eustace Mullins

  Secret, United States, Revolution

  Eustace Clarence Mullins (2013). “The Study of The Federal Reserve and Its Secrets”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Men, Unique

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Play, Squares

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• The Frankenstein of Communism is the product of the Jewish mind, and was turned loose upon the world by the son of a Rabbi, Karl Marx, in the hopes of destroying Christian civilization - as well as others. The testimony given before the Senate of the United States which is take from the many pages of the Overman Report, reveals beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jewish bankers financed the Russian Revolution.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Son, Civilization

  "Still 'Tis Our Ancient Foe". Book by Kenneth Goff, 1962.

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• More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.

  Patrice Pavis

  Wall, Communication, Flirting

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