Revolution Quotes

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

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.

It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

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.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

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.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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.

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.

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