Revolution Quotes

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Love, grief, and the complexity of being human are the driving forces for every artistic revolution.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Our War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.