Revolution Quotes

Jesus didn't fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

~ Ricky Maye

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

~ Nadine Gordimer

In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy’s famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies behind it. Ultimately, what binds the rich together is that they have more money, lots more. For one reason or another, the poor don’t have enough of it. But poverty doesn’t bind the poor together as much as wealth and the need to protect it bind the rich. If it did, we would hear the rattle of tumbrels in the streets. One hears mutterings, but the chains have not yet been shed.

~ William Mcpherson

Everything is mended by the soil.

~ Andrew Crofts

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships.

~ Andrew Crofts

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

~ Andrew Crofts

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as acredible alternative and then as the majority view

~ Gyan Nagpal

A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

~ Abiola Abrams

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

~ Meagan Earls

Without Psychological Evolution there cannot be any form of revolution. The self is constantly changing. Be involved, be evolved, be revolutionized as lucent and fresh as the new wave hitting at the shore. Become the Sea of Changes. It starts from within.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

A personal revolution is the consequence of confronting self - as is.

~ T.f. Hodge

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

~ Victor Hugo

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important, it's an act of revolution.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.

~ Leonard Peltier

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied.

~ Fidel Castro

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

~ George Orwell

The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply ‘the other’, ‘an object’, ‘commodity’, ‘thing’. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain.

~ Sheila Rowbotham

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

~ Cordwainer Smith

Reality is highly overrated.

~ Roxanne Bland

Either offend or represent, don’t be a spectator.

~ Pradeepa Pandiyan

I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful China-experts whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.

~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more bearable. People craved self-importance; they longed to be told they mattered as individuals, not just as part of a mass of people or some historical process. They needed the reassurance that while their life might be hard, bitter and thankless, some reward would be theirs after death. Happily for the governing class, a well-formed faith also kept people from seeking their recompense in the here and now, through riot, insurrection or revolution.

~ Iain M. Banks

Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more bearable. People craved self-importance; they longed to be told they mattered as individuals, not just as part of a mass of people or some historical process. They needed the reassurance that while their life might be hard, bitter and thankless, some reward would be theirs after death. Happily for the governing class, a well-formed faith also kept people from seeking their recompense in the here and now, through riot, insurrection or revolution.

~ Iain M. Banks

The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.

~ Lucy H. Pearce

Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.

~ Arundhati Roy

Until Einstein (roughly), THE universe of Newton was, for us, THE universe. With Einstein, it became A universe. Something similar happen to man. A new 'man' was produced, just as good, certainly contraditory to the old one. THE man became A man, otherwise a 'conceptual construction', one among the infinity of possible ones.

~ Alfred Korzybski

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

~ Abbie Hoffman

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.

~ Rod Duncan

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

~ Alan Moore

Anarchy has the flexibility to overcome many of the traditional problems of activism by focusing on revolution not as another cause but as a philosophy of living. This philosophy is as concrete as a brick being thrown through a window or flowers growing in the garden. By making our daily lives revolutionary, we destroy the artificial separation between activism and everyday life. Why settle for comrades and fellow activists when we can have friends and lovers?

~ Curious George Brigade

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

~ Tom Robbins

Sometimes a revolution turns into an actual government, or at the very least an actual way of life that contrasts with days past like blood on snow. Such was the case in France, where even as the guillotine released a steady river of gore, Royalist insurrections were suppressed by what had become a sophisticated military.In Toulon, the Royalist insurrection in 1793 led to an actual siege by republicans, spearheaded by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. The Royalists in Toulon, supported by the British and Spanish, were feared by the republicans as an existential threat to every hope and promise of the revolution. For months there were bombardments, cannon fire that made the windows in the prison tremble.

~ Kelsey Brickl