Revolution Quotes

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can’t kill revolution, you can jail a liberator but you can’t jail liberation.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

If I wasn’t a singer, I’d be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Lesson from Pataki’s success is: Use the political moment.