(581 quotes found)
“The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.”
Max Weber
“Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.”
Leon Trotsky
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
Albert Camus
“Revolution is the festival of the oppressed”
Germaine Greer
“The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.”
Mao Tse-Tung
