(581 quotes found)
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.”
Angela Davis
“Poverty is the parent of revolution”
Aristotle
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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”
Abraham Lincoln
“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
Kurt Tucholsky
“Any revolution has to start with the transformation of the individual, otherwise individuals are corrupted by the power they get if their revolution succeeds.”
Wes Nisker
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder”
George Bernard Shaw
