Revolution Quotes

I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villagers.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

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

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.