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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 115 reads

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• Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 5 reads

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• I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 137 reads

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 30 reads

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• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 136 reads

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• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 171 reads

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 161 reads

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• I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 83 reads

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• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• If not us, who? If not now, when?

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 33 votes · 153 reads

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• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of t

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 94 reads

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• If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 16 reads

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• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  5.0 · 41 votes · 126 reads

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.4 · 59 votes · 105 reads

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• In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.7 · 30 votes · 95 reads

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• Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 187 reads

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• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.1 · 57 votes · 15 reads

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• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 143 reads

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• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 165 reads

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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

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 59 reads

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• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 190 reads

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• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 94 reads

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• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 96 reads

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• Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 168 reads

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• On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 42 votes · 41 reads

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• One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 167 reads

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• Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 32 reads

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• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 192 reads

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• Revolution: An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.2 · 27 votes · 19 reads

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• Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 114 reads

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• Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 181 reads

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 30 reads

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• Riots are the voices of the unheard.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 134 reads

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 36 reads

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• The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 8 reads

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• The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 113 reads

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• The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 148 reads

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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.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 111 reads

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

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 197 reads

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• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 157 reads

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• The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affect

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 173 reads

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 12 reads

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• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 29 reads

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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 Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 107 reads

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 67 reads

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• The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

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  Charles James Fox

  PoliticianBritish1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 157 reads

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

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 114 reads

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• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 137 reads

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• When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 48 reads

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• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 16 reads

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• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 84 reads

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• You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' - ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dr

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 12 reads

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