(581 quotes found)
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
Hannah Arendt
“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
William James
“I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.”
Fidel Castro
“The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children”
Georg Buchner
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
Mao Zedong
“Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”
Franz Kafka
“The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
