Quotes about revolution
revolution patriot makers
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. Gary Hamel
revolution midst unfinished
Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution. Gloria Feldt
revolution states wells
You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature. Glenn Reynolds
revolution action american-freedom
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Patrick Henry
revolution distinction virginians
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
revolutionary strategy significance
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy. Leon Trotsky
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[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."
revolution problem revolutionary
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
revolutionary existence significance
That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.
revolution determined revolutionary
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
revolution strategy possibility
What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.
revolution defeat socialism
Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.
revolution obstacles succes
All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes. Nawal El Saadawi
revolution terrorist ifs
If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. Muammar al-Gaddafi
revolutionary rioting
Rioting is not revolutionary. Martin Luther King, Jr.
revolution plans reactionaries
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. Mikhail Bakunin
revolution technological
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. Nathan Myhrvold
revolution suffrage universal
Universal suffrage is counter-revolution. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
revolution purpose triggers
For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society Nelson Mandela
revolution facts awareness
I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution. Kenneth R. Miller
revolution socialist
You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else. Ken Livingstone
revolution facts adam
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution. P. J. O'Rourke
revolution conformity rebellion
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. Louis Kronenberger
revolutionary rebellion
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
revolution
Every revolution has its counter-revolution. Mary Ritter Beard
revolution affliction individual
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. Mario Vargas Llosa
revolution conscience
Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution. Noam Chomsky
revolution needs disappear
The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Germaine Greer
revolution kentuckians quitter
We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.' George Washington
revolution causes noble
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
revolutionary fascists militia
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. George Orwell
revolution capitalism
The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself. Mordecai Richler