REVOLUTION

Related Subjects: Anarchy, Change, Chaos, Government, Rebellion, Socialism

1. 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, Politics
   

2. Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them; for, if either party were manifestly superior, the other would not risk an attack upon them.—ARISTOTLE,
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3. All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, Little Essays on Love and Virtue
   

4. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
   Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
   Here once the embattled farmers stood,
   And fired the shot heard round the world.—EMERSON, Concord Hymn
   

5. Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.—MILLARD FILLMORE
   

6. Revolutions are hot when factory chimneys are cold.—SAMUEL GRAFTON, I'd Rather Be Right
   

7. In spite of that section of the press which believes revolutions are caused by propaganda, it remains true in our day as in every day that revolutions are started by angry men.—SAMUEL GRAFTON, I'd Rather Be Right
   

8. A revolution, or anything that interrupts social order, may afford opportunities for the individual display of eminent virtues; but its effects are pernicious to general morality.—HAWTHORNE, The Snow Image
   

9. The conviction of the justification of using even most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe. A movement which does not fight for such highest aims and ideals will therefore never take the ultimate weapon.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
   

10. With a party of ten millions one can no longer make a revolution.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
    

11. I represent a party which does not yet exist; the party of revolution, civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first, the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.—VICTOR HUGO
    

12. Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
    

13. A revolution conducted according to the rules of cricket is an absurdity.—ARTHUR KOESTLER, Darkness at Noon
    

14. If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.—LINCOLN
    

15. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, unite!—KARL MARX, Manifesto of the Communist Party
    

16. Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the race of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.—KARL MARX, Manifesto of the Communist Party
    

17. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
    On half the nations, and with fear of change
    Perplexes monarchs.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
    

18. Successful partisan warfare demands these fundamentals : fearlessness, swiftness, intelligent planning, mobility, secrecy, and suddenness and determination in action. Lacking any of these, it is difficult for partisans to win victories.—PENG TEH-HUAI, Snow: Red Star Over China
    

19. Revolutions are not made; they come.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
    

20. Revolutions never go backward.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
    

21. We are approaching a crisis and a century of revolution.—ROUSSEAU