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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/220px-Huey_Newton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/330px-Huey_Newton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Huey_Newton.jpg/440px-Huey_Newton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="456" data-file-height="461" /></a><figcaption>I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg/220px-Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg/330px-Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg/440px-Holds_the_sun_in_her_fingers.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. ~ <a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Reich" title="Charles A. Reich">Charles A. Reich</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg/220px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg/330px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg/440px-Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_La_libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3133" data-file-height="2480" /></a><figcaption>We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eric_Hoffer" title="Eric Hoffer">Eric Hoffer</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/220px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/330px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Brocken-tanzawa.JPG/440px-Brocken-tanzawa.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. ~ <a href="/wiki/Will_Durant" title="Will Durant">Will Durant</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg/220px-Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg/330px-Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg/440px-Battle_of_Guilford_Courthouse_15_March_1781.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1929" data-file-height="1383" /></a><figcaption>Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. ~ <a href="/wiki/Wendell_Phillips" title="Wendell Phillips">Wendell Phillips</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_(thamzing)_session_1964.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_%28thamzing%29_session_1964.jpg/220px-Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_%28thamzing%29_session_1964.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_%28thamzing%29_session_1964.jpg/330px-Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_%28thamzing%29_session_1964.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Panchen_Lama_during_the_struggle_%28thamzing%29_session_1964.jpg 2x" data-file-width="396" data-file-height="258" /></a><figcaption>[W]hat is happening is what left-wing revolutions do tend to produce, whether they’re talking about the Russian Revolution or the French Revolution, and that is students – the next generation of revolutionaries – become not only more radical than their radical professors, but they turn on them so the revolution tends to consume its own. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_P._George" title="Robert P. George">Robert P. George</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg/220px-Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg/330px-Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg/440px-Che_Guevara_-_Guerrillero_Heroico_by_Alberto_Korda.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2827" data-file-height="3274" /></a><figcaption>At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. ~ <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_Panther_Crop.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Black_Panther_Crop.png/220px-Black_Panther_Crop.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Black_Panther_Crop.png/330px-Black_Panther_Crop.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Black_Panther_Crop.png/440px-Black_Panther_Crop.png 2x" data-file-width="490" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Jackson_(activist)" title="George Jackson (activist)">George L. Jackson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg/220px-Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg/330px-Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg/440px-Victor_Hugo_statue_Guernsey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1044" data-file-height="1424" /></a><figcaption>Would you realize what Revolution is, call it <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">Progress</a>; and would you realize what Progress is, call it <a href="/wiki/Tomorrow" title="Tomorrow">Tomorrow</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" title="Les Misérables">Les Misérables</a></i></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg/220px-Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg/330px-Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg/440px-Kennedy_at_the_Brandenburg_Gate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2955" data-file-height="2954" /></a><figcaption>The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg/220px-Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg/330px-Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg/440px-Sprit_of_%2776.2.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2472" data-file-height="3333" /></a><figcaption>Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:March_on_Washington_edit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/March_on_Washington_edit.jpg/220px-March_on_Washington_edit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/March_on_Washington_edit.jpg/330px-March_on_Washington_edit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/March_on_Washington_edit.jpg/440px-March_on_Washington_edit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1271" data-file-height="1902" /></a><figcaption>A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. ~ <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd,_June_14,_1963.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg/220px-Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg/330px-Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg/440px-Robert_Kennedy_speaking_before_a_crowd%2C_June_14%2C_1963.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3165" data-file-height="4806" /></a><figcaption>A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. ~ <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kennedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Kennedy">Robert Kennedy</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG/220px-Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG/330px-Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG/440px-Freeport_Il_Lincoln_the_Debater1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1536" data-file-height="2048" /></a><figcaption>Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right. ~ <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> </figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution" class="extiw" title="w:Revolution">Revolution</a></b> (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgar_Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Vulgar Latin">Late Latin</a> <i>revolutio</i> which means "a turn around") is a significant <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a> that usually occurs in a relatively short period of time. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <i><a href="#Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Revolution is learning how to bring a large variety of personalities together into a powerful <a href="/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmony</a>. This harmony must lay down some general direction and get work done. It’s never easy. It’s struggle. It takes a lot of skill. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ashanti_Alston" title="Ashanti Alston">Ashanti Alston</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ashanti-omowali-anarcho-pantherista">Anarcho-Pantherista</a></i>, 1995 Aug/Sep issue of L&R</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The most radical revolutionary will become a <a href="/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism">conservative</a> the day after the revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Arendt" title="Hannah Arendt">Hannah Arendt</a> <i>The New Yorker</i> (12 September 1970)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Arendt" title="Hannah Arendt">Hannah Arendt</a>, <i>Hannah Arendt</i> (1989) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iMIPAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Revolutionaries+do+not+make+revolutions+The+revolutionaries+are+those+who+know+when+power+is+lying+in+the+street+and+when+they+can+pick+it+up+Armed%22">Thoughts on Politics and Revolution: A Commentary</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutions hew the past to pieces and cast it into a cauldron, but what has emerged is the old Aeson with a new visage. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, <i>Thoughts and Aphorisms</i>, <i>Karma</i> (1913)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whatever plans we may make, we shall find quite useless when the time for action comes. Revolutions are always full of surprises, and whoever thinks he can play chess with a revolution will soon find how terrible is the grasp of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> and how insignificant the human reason before the whirlwind of His breath. That man only is likely to dominate the chances of a Revolution, who makes no plans but preserves his heart pure for the will of God to declare itself. The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose. If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo" title="Sri Aurobindo">Sri Aurobindo</a>, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). <i>India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches.</i> Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004028/http://bharatvani.org/books/ir/IR_frontpage.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Revolution requires extensive and widespread <a href="/wiki/Destruction" title="Destruction">destruction</a>, a fecund and renovating <a href="/wiki/Destruction" title="Destruction">destruction</a>, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin" title="Mikhail Bakunin">Mikhail Bakunin</a>, <i>Statism and Anarchy</i> (1873)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The peoples' revolution ... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin" title="Mikhail Bakunin">Mikhail Bakunin</a>, <i>Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organisation of the International Brotherhood</i> (1868)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is time to apply to the mystique of revolution the same critical <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">intelligence</a> that has been applied to the mystique of war. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Baldelli" title="Giovanni Baldelli">Giovanni Baldelli</a>, <i>Social Anarchism</i> (1971)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. <i>"Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?"</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Bamford" title="Maria Bamford">Maria Bamford</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerdist#Nerdist_Podcast" class="extiw" title="w:Nerdist"><i>Nerdist</i> podcast</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nerdist.com/2010/07/nerdist-podcast-25-maria-bamford/">episode #25</a>, July 5, 2012.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Morally, it is wrong to suppose the source of <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a> is outside oneself, that one is a vessel of holiness running over with virtue. Such a disposition is the best soil for a hateful and cruel <a href="/wiki/Fanaticism" title="Fanaticism">fanaticism</a>. It is as wrong to impute every wickedness to <a href="/wiki/Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Jews">Jews</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemansons" class="extiw" title="w:Freemansons">Freemansons</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Intellectuals" class="mw-redirect" title="Intellectuals">intellectuals</a>," as it is to blame all crimes on the <i><a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a></i>, the <a href="/wiki/Nobility" title="Nobility">nobility</a>, and the powers that were. No; the root of evil is in me as well, and I must take my share of the responsibility and the blame. That was true before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_revolution" class="extiw" title="w:Russian revolution">revolution</a> and it is true still. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev" title="Nikolai Berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a>, <i>The End of Our Time</i> (1919), p. 128</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Bern" title="Dan Bern">Dan Bern</a>, "True Revolutionaries", <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartie_Mine" class="extiw" title="w:Smartie Mine">Smartie Mine</a></i> (1999)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States" title="History of the United States">American history</a>, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were out advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it -- this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French revolution</a> is of incalculable value to the <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialist</a> of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a>, <i>The Devil's Dictionary</i> (1911).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are all concerned with the revolutionary problem of how and what to produce, but nobody points out that producing is a revolutionary problem. If <a href="/wiki/Production" title="Production">production</a> is at the root of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> exploitation, to change the <a href="/wiki/Mode_of_production" title="Mode of production">mode of production</a> would merely change the mode of exploitation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno" title="Alfredo M. Bonanno">Alfredo M. Bonanno</a>, <i>Armed Joy</i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By abolishing the ethic of production you enter revolutionary reality directly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno" title="Alfredo M. Bonanno">Alfredo M. Bonanno</a>, <i>Armed Joy</i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a>. Journal of International Affairs, By Columbia University. School of International Affairs, 1976, pg 94</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Long overdue is a revolution—a revolution against bosses who control your food, your allowance, and your <a href="/wiki/Nightmare" title="Nightmare">nightmares</a>. It would be so easy to step into one of those executive conference rooms—at the end of the long hallway where the corner office overlooks the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazano-Narrows_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:Verrazano-Narrows Bridge">Verrazano Bridge</a>—and gun down the corporate board of directors—just shoot them in the head—it would be a crime for humanity and a cry for justice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Giannina_Braschi" title="Giannina Braschi">Giannina Braschi</a>. "United States of Banana" (2011). p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We cannot wait for the world to turn, for times to change that we might change with them, for the revolution to come and carry us around in its new course. We ourselves are the future. We are the revolution. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/explorations/teachers/view/146/beatrice-bruteau">Beatrice Bruteau</a> quoted by <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Ferguson#The_Aquarian_Conspiracy_(1980)" title="Marilyn Ferguson">Marilyn Ferguson in <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>, Chapter 1</a> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A time <i>will</i> come when the people will understand their <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pigs" title="Pigs">pigs</a>' <a href="/wiki/Machine" title="Machine">machinery</a> will be unable to accommodate their demands. That is when the people, <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black people</a> and poor <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white people</a> and oppressed people all over <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">America</a> will rise up like mighty tide and clean this beachfront of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States" title="Racism in the United States">racism</a>, and <i>make</i> the revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elaine_Brown" title="Elaine Brown">Elaine Brown</a>, <i>A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story</i> (1992)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hardly anyone expected the American uprising (revolution) to succeed. Thousands of colonists emigrated to <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> or hid in the woods, certain that the king's armies would tear the colonial regiments to shreds. Nor did a majority of the people support the struggle for <a href="/wiki/Independence" title="Independence">independence</a>, even in theory. <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">Historians</a> estimate that one-third favored independence, one-third favored retaining <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British</a> ties, and one-third were indifferent. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacGregor_Burns" class="extiw" title="w:James MacGregor Burns">James MacGregor Burns</a> quoted by <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Ferguson" title="Marilyn Ferguson">Marilyn Ferguson</a> in <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>, Chapter 5 (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The first duty of <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a> is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a>. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexis_Carrel" title="Alexis Carrel">Alexis Carrel</a>, <i>Reflections on Life</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolfo_Bioy_Casares" title="Adolfo Bioy Casares">Adolfo Bioy Casares</a>, <i>Descanso de caminantes</i> (2001)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1961/esp/f020161e.html">Speech on the second anniversary of the triumph of the revolution (January 2, 1961)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The death of a fighter is not a reason to mourn, if we believe, as we have always believed, as our people have believed and as revolutionaries of every era have believed, that no true man, no true revolutionary dies in vain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1968/esp/f120168e.html">Speech (12 January 1968)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when...<i>to dare,</i> is the highest wisdom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing" title="William Ellery Channing">William Ellery Channing</a>, <i>The Union</i> (1829)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Henry Clay</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bartleby.com/268/9/5.html">Speech on the Emancipation of South America</a>, House of Representatives (24 March 1818); <i>The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay,</i> vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The only way forward is to bring on a Revolution of Compassion which will breathe new life into <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a> by extending <a href="/wiki/Solidarity" title="Solidarity">solidarity</a>.</li> <li>To bring on a Revolution of Compassion requires awareness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dalai_Lama" class="mw-redirect" title="Dalai Lama">The Dalai Lama</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Stril-Rever" class="extiw" title="w:Sofia Stril-Rever">Sofia Stril-Rever</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/A_Call_for_Revolution/YJI7DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=PT24&printsec=frontcover"><i>A Call for Revolution: An appeal to the young people of the world</i></a> (Rider (UK), William Morrow (US), 2018), p. 48</li> <li>The page reference is for the UK edition; the US edition has different pagination.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution is a city flower; it does not flourish in the country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies">Robertson Davies</a>, <i>Murther and Walking Spirits</i> (1991), part II, section 19</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The call to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/defund_the_police" class="extiw" title="w:defund the police">defund the police</a> is, I think, an abolitionist demand, but it reflects only one aspect of the process represented by the demand. Defunding the police is not simply about withdrawing funding for law enforcement and doing nothing else. And it appears as if this is the rather <a href="/wiki/Superficial" class="mw-redirect" title="Superficial">superficial</a> understanding that has caused Biden to move in the direction he’s moving in. <br /> It’s about shifting public funds to new services and new institutions — <a href="/wiki/Mental_health" title="Mental health">mental health</a> <a href="/wiki/Counselor" class="mw-redirect" title="Counselor">counselors</a>, who can respond to people who are in crisis without arms. It’s about shifting funding to <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Housing" title="Housing">housing</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Recreation" title="Recreation">recreation</a>. All of these things help to create <a href="/wiki/Security" title="Security">security</a> and <a href="/wiki/Safety" title="Safety">safety</a>. It’s about learning that safety, safeguarded by violence, is not really safety<br />And I would say that abolition is not primarily a negative strategy. It’s not primarily about dismantling, getting rid of, but it’s about reenvisioning. It’s about building anew... And one sees in these abolitionist demands that are emerging the pivotal influence of <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a> theories and practices... Abolition is really about rethinking the kind of future we want, the social future, the economic future, the political future. It’s about revolution, I would argue. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Davis" title="Angela Davis">Angela Davis</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/12/angela_davis_on_abolition_calls_to">Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election, <i>Democracy Now,</i></a> (12 June 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The reason i am a <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a> is because I believe in a total revolution which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Y._Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Angela Y. Davis">Angela Y. Davis</a>, from an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/Redfishstream/videos/184844339473961/">interview</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>When you talk about a revolution, most people think <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a>; without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you're striving for - not in the way that you reach them. On the other hand, because of the way this society is organized; because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere - you'd have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angela_Y._Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Angela Y. Davis">Angela Y. Davis</a>, from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592527/characters/nm0204171">The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The older and wiser heads of the world have always described revolution and love to us as the two most foolish and loathsome of human activities. Before the war, even during the war, we were convinced of it. Since the defeat, however, we no longer trust the older and wiser heads and have come to feel that the opposite of whatever they say is the real truth about life. Revolution and love are in fact the best, most pleasurable things in the world, and we realize it is precisely because they are so good that the older and wiser heads have spitefully fobbed off on us their sour grapes of a lie. This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Dazai" title="Osamu Dazai">Osamu Dazai</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Setting_Sun" class="extiw" title="w:The Setting Sun">The Setting Sun</a></i> (1947)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In order for the universe of revolutionary values to arise, a subjective <a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_movement" title="Revolutionary movement">movement</a> must create them in revolt and hope. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir" title="Simone de Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethics_of_Ambiguity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Ethics of Ambiguity">The Ethics of Ambiguity</a></i>. Philosophical Library. 1948. p. 19. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8065-0160-4">ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%7CThe+Ethics+of+Ambiguity%5D%5D&rft.date=1948&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B19&rft.pub=Philosophical+Library&rft.isbn=978-0-8065-0160-4&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As the peoples always move,—as Life, which is greater than the peoples, always moves. And the business of the revolutionist, the Seeker for the Changes of Old Forms, the dreamer of Liberty and Plenty, is to be with them in their struggle, in their victory, in their defeat, whenever, wherever, the people rise. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre" title="Voltairine de Cleyre">Voltairine de Cleyre</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voltairine-de-cleyre-the-mexican-revolt?v=1707879518">The Mexican Revolt</a></i>, <i>Mother Earth</i> 6 no. 6 (August 1911): 167-171</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">Leftists</a> really fear the bloody violence of revolution, and hence they focus on displacing <a href="/wiki/Anger" title="Anger">anger</a> into safer procedural, <a href="/wiki/Consumerism" title="Consumerism">consumerist</a>, and aesthetic channels. As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hallward" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Peter Hallward">Peter Hallward</a> emphasizes, the legacy of anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_(politics)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jacobin (politics)">Jacobinism</a> is a preference for the condemnation of some kinds of violence but not others: leftists join democrats, liberals, and conservatives in denouncing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Reign of Terror">revolutionary Terror</a> while they virtually ignore the "far more bloody <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune#"Bloody_Week"" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paris Commune">repression of the 1871 Commune</a>." Even those who see themselves as part of some open and varied constellation of the Left condemn the violence of the people against those who would oppress them. State violence and the force of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-revolutionary" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Counter-revolutionary">counterrevolution</a> is taken for granted, assumed, cloaked in a prior legitimacy or presumed to be justified in the interest of order. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jodi_Dean" title="Jodi Dean">Jodi Dean</a>, <i>The Communist Horizon</i> (2012), pp. 58-59</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1907/revolution.htm">"Revolution" in <i>New York Worker</i> (27 April 1907)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This means we must subject the machine—<a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a>—to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Grail" title="Holy Grail">Holy Grai</a>l. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machine—and the vast <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucracy</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Corporations" title="Corporations">corporation</a> state and of government that runs that machine—the servant of man.<br /><br />That is the revolution that is coming.<br /><br />That revolution—now that the people hold the residual powers of government—need not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">William O. Douglas</a>, <i>Points of Rebellion</i> (1970), p. 96–97</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must realize that today's Establishment is the new <a href="/wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="George III of the United Kingdom">George III</a>. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">William O. Douglas</a>, <i>Points of Rebellion</i> (1970), p. 95</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The only real revolution is in the <a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a> of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real <a href="/wiki/Emancipation" title="Emancipation">emancipation</a> is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Saints" title="Saints">saints</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Will_Durant" title="Will Durant">Will Durant</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lessons_of_History" class="extiw" title="w:The Lessons of History">The Lessons of History</a></i> (1968)‎, p. 72 (co-authored with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Durant" class="extiw" title="w:Ariel Durant">Ariel Durant</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The two great conceptual revolutions of <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">twentieth-century</a> <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>, the overturning of <a href="/wiki/Classical_mechanics" title="Classical mechanics">classical physics</a> by <a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Werner Heisenberg</a> and the overturning of the <a href="/wiki/Foundations_of_mathematics" title="Foundations of mathematics">foundations of mathematics</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del" title="Kurt Gödel">Kurt Gödel</a>, occurred within six years of each other within the narrow boundaries of <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. ...A study of the historical background of German intellectual life in the 1920s reveals strong links between them. <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">Physicists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mathematicians" title="Mathematicians">mathematicians</a> were exposed simultaneously to external influences that pushed them along parallel paths. ...Two people who came early and strongly under the influence of <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Spengler's</a> philosophy were the mathematician <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Weyl" title="Hermann Weyl">Hermann Weyl</a> and the physicist <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger" title="Erwin Schrödinger">Erwin Schrödinger</a>. ...Weyle and Schrödinger agreed with Spengler that the coming revolution would sweep away the principle of physical <a href="/wiki/Causality" title="Causality">causality</a>. The erstwhile revolutionaries <a href="/wiki/David_Hilbert" title="David Hilbert">David Hilbert</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> found themselves in the unaccustomed role of defenders of the status quo, Hilbert defending the primacy of <a href="/wiki/Formal_logic" class="mw-redirect" title="Formal logic">formal logic</a> in the foundations of <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, Einstein defending the primacy of causality in physics. In the short run, Hilbert and Einstein were defeated and the Spenglerian ideology of revolution triumphed, both in physics and in mathematics. Heisenberg discovered the true limits of causality in atomic processes, and Gödel discovered the limits of formal deduction and proof in <a href="/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>. And, <b>as often happens in the history of intellectual revolutions, the achievement of revolutionary goals destroyed the revolutionary ideology that gave them birth.</b> The visions of Spengler, having served their purpose, rapidly became irrelevant. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a>, <i>The Scientist As Rebel</i> (2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>Essays: First Series</i>, 1841</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every change in the social order, every revolution in <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> relations, is the necessary <a href="/wiki/Consequence" class="mw-redirect" title="Consequence">consequence</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Creation" title="Creation">creation</a> of new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/forces_of_production" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:forces of production">forces of production</a> which no longer fit into the old property relations. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Friedrich Engels</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Communism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Principles of Communism">Principles of Communism</a></i> (1847) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The colonized subject thus discovers that his life, his breathing and his heartbeats are the same as the colonist's. He discovers that the skin of a colonist is not worth more than the "native's." In other words, his world receives a fundamental jolt. The colonized's revolutionary new assurance stems from this. If, in fact, my life is worth as much as the colonist's, his look can no longer strike fear into me or nail me to the spot and his voice can no longer petrify me. I am no longer uneasy in his presence. In reality, to hell with him. Not only does his presence no longer bother me, but I am already preparing to waylay him in such a way that soon he will have no other solution but to flee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Frantz_Fanon" title="Frantz Fanon">Frantz Fanon</a>, <i>The Wretched of the Earth</i> (1963), p. 10'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature's</a> <a href="/wiki/Transformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Transformation">transformative</a> powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to be feared or subdued. Our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pathology" class="extiw" title="w:pathology">pathology</a> is our opportunity. <br />A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical change in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history. This network is the Aquarian Conspiracy. It is a conspiracy without a political doctrine. Without a manifesto. With conspirators who seek power only to disperse it, and whose strategies are pragmatic, even scientific, but whose perspective sounds so mystical that they hesitate to discuss it. Activists asking different kinds of questions, challenging the establishment from within. Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Ferguson#The_Aquarian_Conspiracy_(1980)" title="Marilyn Ferguson">Marilyn Ferguson in <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>, Chapter 1</a> (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The revolution was in the minds of the people. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a>. Long before the first shot is fired, the revolution begins. Long after truce is declared, it continues to overturn lives... <br />Although it is rarely noted in histories of the American Revolution, many of the arch-Revolutionaries came from a tradition of mystical fraternity. Except for such traces as the symbols on the reverse side of the Great Seal and the dollar bill, little evidence remains of this esoteric influence (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian" class="extiw" title="w:Rosicrucian">Rosicrucian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Masonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Masonic">Masonic</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism" class="extiw" title="w:Hermeticism">Hermetic</a>). That sense of fraternity and spiritual chisement played an important role in the intensity of the Revolutionaries and their commitment to the realization of a <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>...<br /><i>A New Order of the Ages Begins</i>, says the reverse side of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Great Seal of the United States">the Great Seal</a>, and the Revolutionaries meant it. The American experiment was consciously conceived as a momentous step in the evolution of the species. <i>The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind,</i> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine" title="Thomas Paine">Thomas Paine</a> said in his inflammatory pamphlet <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Paine#Common_Sense_(1776)" title="Thomas Paine">Common Sense</a> (1776). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Ferguson" title="Marilyn Ferguson">Marilyn Ferguson</a> in <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>, Chapter 5, The American Matrix for Transformation (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Revel" title="Jean-François Revel">Jean-François Revel</a> ...described the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> as the most eligible prototype nation for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution" class="extiw" title="w:World revolution">world revolution</a>. Real revolutionary activity, he noted, consists of transforming <a href="/wiki/Reality" title="Reality">reality</a>, that is, in making reality conform more closely to one's ideal. When we speak of "revolution" we must necessarily speak of something that cannot be conceived or understood within the context of old ideas. The stuff of revolution, and its first success, must be the ability to innovate. In that sense, there is more revolutionary spirit in the United States today, even on the Right, than elsewhere on the Left. <br /> The relative freedom in the United States would make it possible for such a revolution to occur bloodlessly, Revel said. If that happened, and if one political civilization were exchanged for another, as seemed to be happening, the impact might be felt worldwide by osmosis. This radical transformation would need the simultaneous occurrence of smaller revolutions—in politics, society, international and interracial relations, cultural values, and technology and science. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Ferguson" title="Marilyn Ferguson">Marilyn Ferguson</a> in <i>The Aquarian Conspiracy</i>, Chapter 5 (1980)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The successful revolutionary is a <a href="/wiki/Statesmanship" title="Statesmanship">statesman</a>, the unsuccessful one a <a href="/wiki/Crime" title="Crime">criminal</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm">Erich Fromm</a> <i>Escape from Freedom</i>, 1941</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">Socialism</a> seeks to change society for the sake of the oppressed masses, but is what it would accomplish truly for their welfare? Socialism would create a social upheaval “for the masses,” and the masses would stake their lives in the struggle together with those who had risen up on their behalf. But what would the ensuing change mean for them? Power would be in the hands of the leaders, and the order of the new society would be based on that power. The masses would become slaves allover again to that power. What is revolution, then, but the replacing of one power with another? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaneko_Fumiko" title="Kaneko Fumiko">Kaneko Fumiko</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i>The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman</i>. M.E. Sharpe. 1991. pp. 236-237. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87332-801-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87332-801-2">ISBN 978-0-87332-801-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Prison+Memoirs+of+a+Japanese+Woman&rft.date=1991&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B236-237&rft.pub=M.E.+Sharpe&rft.isbn=978-0-87332-801-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> Translated by Jean Inglis</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peaceful_transfer_of_power" class="extiw" title="w:peaceful transfer of power">peaceful transfer of power</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mohandas_K._Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohandas K. Gandhi">Mohandas K. Gandhi</a>, <i>Non-violence in Peace and War</i>, 1948</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[W]hat is happening is what left-wing revolutions do tend to produce, whether they’re talking about the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">Russian Revolution</a> or the French Revolution, and that is <a href="/wiki/Students" title="Students">students</a> – the next generation of revolutionaries – become not only more radical than their radical <a href="/wiki/Teachers" title="Teachers">professors</a>, but they turn on them so the revolution tends to consume its own. So now people who think of themselves of impeccably left-wing will say something that offends some group of radicalized students – perhaps students that they themselves helped to radicalize – and suddenly they are the ones under fire for not conforming sufficiently to the contemporary orthodoxy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_P._George" title="Robert P. George">Robert P. George</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/robert-p-george/">interview with Bill Kristol</a> (April 2016), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/robert-george-transcript/">transcript</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Rebellion without <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is like spring in a bleak, arid <a href="/wiki/Desert" title="Desert">desert</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kahlil_Gibran" title="Kahlil Gibran">Kahlil Gibran</a>, <i>The Vision</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Goethe" class="mw-redirect" title="Goethe">Goethe</a>, <i>Conversations with Goethe</i>, 1824</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No real <a href="/wiki/Social_change" title="Social change">social change</a> has ever come about without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Emma_Goldman" title="Emma Goldman">Emma Goldman</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_and_Other_Essays" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Anarchism and Other Essays">Anarchism and Other Essays</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anarchism_and_Other_Essays/1" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Anarchism and Other Essays/1">Anarchism: What It Really Stands For</a>, 1910, <i>Mother Earth Publishing</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The revolution is not an <a href="/wiki/Apples" title="Apples">apple</a> that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it drop. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>. "Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon", by Trisha Ziff, Abrams Image, 2006, p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution). <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, letter to <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, 1965</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.<br /> The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.<br />In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force. <ul><li>Excerpts from the two paragraphs above have sometimes been quoted in abbreviated form: <b>At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.</b></li> <li>Variant translation: One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, <i>Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)</i>, A letter to Carlos Quijano, editor of <i>Marcha</i> a radical weekly published in Montevideo, Uruguay; published as "From Algiers, for <i>Marcha</i> : The Cuban Revolution Today" (12 March 1965); also published in <i>Verde Olivo</i>, the magazine of the Cuban armed forces <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/03/man-socialism.htm">"Socialism and Man in Cuba"</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/03/man-socialism-alt.htm">Variant translation by Margarita Zimmermann</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We have to acknowledge that the <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a> is tottering towards its collapse... What empires traditionally do at the end is they engage in what historians call "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/micro-militarism" class="extiw" title="w:micro-militarism">micro-militarism</a>".... At the end stage, the elites need the tools that the <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a> perfected on <a href="/wiki/Person_of_color" title="Person of color">people of color</a> abroad... the drones and militarized police and heavy weapons such as armored personnel carriers being used.... against the country's own <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizens</a>.</li> <li><b>As <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> said, once you have <a href="/wiki/Oligarchy" title="Oligarchy">oligarchic</a> rule, there are only two choices. It is <a class="mw-selflink selflink">revolution</a> or <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a>, and that's it. I'm not naive enough to tell you the revolution is going to win, but I'm going to tell you that if it doesn't win then there will be a very ugly corporate tyranny in the United States.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Hedges" title="Chris Hedges">Chris Hedges</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.salon.com/2020/07/16/chris-hedges-america-faces-a-historic-choice--ugly-corporate-tyranny-or-revolution"><b>/ Chris Hedges: America faces a historic choice — "ugly corporate tyranny" or revolution</b>, Chuncey Devega, <i>Salon</i></a> (16 July 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a> would be inviolable and sacred. <b>If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual <a href="/wiki/Citizenship" title="Citizenship">citizen</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mein_Kampf" title="Mein Kampf">Mein Kampf</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein" title="Robert A. Heinlein">Robert A. Heinlein</a>, <i>The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress</i> (1966)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>When <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hopes</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">doors</a>, shutter <a href="/wiki/Window" title="Window">windows</a> and lie low until the wrath has passed.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Hoffer" title="Eric Hoffer">Eric Hoffer</a>, <i>The True Believer</i>, 1951</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We used to think that revolutions are the cause of <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a>. <b>Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Hoffer" title="Eric Hoffer">Eric Hoffer</a>, <i>The Temper of Our Time</i>, 1967</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat <a href="/wiki/Breakfast" title="Breakfast">breakfast</a>. I ain't going. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman" title="Abbie Hoffman">Abbie Hoffman</a>, spoken to police immediately prior to his 1968 arrest in Chicago; quoted in Marty Jezer's biography of him, "Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The notion of capturing positions of power, whether it be governmental power or more dispersed positions of power in society, misses the point that the aim of the revolution is to dissolve relations of power, to create a society based on the mutual recognition of people's dignity. What has failed is the notion that revolution means capturing power in order to abolish power. What is now on the agenda is the much more demanding notion of a direct attack on power relations. The only way in which revolution can now be imagined is not as the conquest of power but as the dissolution of power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Holloway_(sociologist)" title="John Holloway (sociologist)">John Holloway</a>, <i>Change the World Without Taking Power</i> (2002)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The wind of revolutions is not tractable. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" title="Les Misérables">Les Misérables</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Would you realize what Revolution is, call it <a href="/wiki/Progress" title="Progress">Progress</a>; and would you realize what Progress is, call it <a href="/wiki/Tomorrow" title="Tomorrow">Tomorrow</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Hugo" title="Victor Hugo">Victor Hugo</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables" title="Les Misérables">Les Misérables</a></i>, Vol. II : Cosette, Book I : Waterloo, Chapter XVII : Is Waterloo to be considered Good?</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen" title="Henrik Ibsen">Henrik Ibsen</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People" class="mw-redirect" title="An Enemy of the People">An Enemy of the People</a></i>, 1882</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>History does not relate any true revolution which came from power. All began with <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> and meant in essence a moral summons. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alija_Izetbegovi%C4%87" title="Alija Izetbegović">Alija Izetbegović</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Islamic_Declaration" class="extiw" title="w:The Islamic Declaration">The Islamic Declaration</a></i> (1970), p. 53.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Revolutionary change means the seizure of all that is held by the 1 percent, and the transference of these holdings into the hands of the remaining 99 percent. If the 1 percent are simply replaced by another 1 percent, revolutionary change has not taken place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Jackson_(activist)" title="George Jackson (activist)">George L. Jackson</a>, <i>Blood in My Eye</i> (1971), p. 9</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The tree of <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriots</a> and tyrants. It is its natural manure. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl64.htm">Letter</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stephens_Smith" class="extiw" title="w:William Stephens Smith">William Stephens Smith</a> (13 November 1787), quoted in Padover's <i>Jefferson On Democracy</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If this avenue [of democratic <a href="/wiki/Political_revolution" title="Political revolution">political revolution</a>] be shut to the call of sufferance, it will make itself heard through that of force, and we shall go on, as other nations are doing, in the endless circle of oppression, rebellion, reformation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, quoted in <i>The American Revolution of 1800: How Thomas Jefferson Rescued Democracy from Tyranny and Faction—And What This Means Today</i> by Dan Sisson and Thom Hartmann (2014), p. 215</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The last will be first, and the first will be last. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> 20:16</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew">Matthew</a> 23:12</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Proti proudu nemožná plavati.</i> <ul><li>It is impossible to swim against the current. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Jir%C3%A1sek" class="extiw" title="w:Alois Jirásek">Alois Jirásek</a>, <i>Filozofská historie</i>, ch. XI.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution always unforlds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/June_Jordan" title="June Jordan">June Jordan</a> "America in Confrontation with Democracy, or, the Meaning of the Jesse Jackson Campaign" in <i>Technical Difficulties</i> (1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic <a href="/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism">despotism</a> and profiteering or power-grabbing <a href="/wiki/Oppression" title="Oppression">oppression</a>, but it can never truly reform a manner of <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thinking</a>; instead, new <a href="/wiki/Prejudice" title="Prejudice">prejudices</a>, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>, <i>What Is Enlightenment</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The warrior generations to which the remilitarisations gave birth in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria" class="extiw" title="w:Algeria">Algeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, and what was once <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, are growing old today. The revolutions for which they and millions of unwilling participants paid such a terrible price in blood and anguish have withered at the roots. <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnam" title="South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>, the prize of <a href="/wiki/Ho_Ch%C3%AD_Minh" title="Ho Chí Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">long war</a>, has refused to abandon its <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> habits. The <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinese</a> greybeards of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March" class="extiw" title="w:Long March">Long March</a> have preserved the authority of <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">the party</a> only by <a href="/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform" title="Chinese economic reform">conceding economic freedoms wholly at variance with Marxist doctrine</a>. In Algeria a sprawling population looks for a solution to economic hardship either in <a href="/wiki/Islamic_fundamentalism" title="Islamic fundamentalism">Islamic fundamentalism</a> or in <a href="/wiki/Emigration" title="Emigration">emigration</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">richer world on the other side of the Mediterranean</a>. The peoples of former Yugoslavia whom <a href="/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito" title="Josip Broz Tito">Tito</a> sought to unite by bloodying their lands in a common struggle against the Axis now bloody their hands against each other in a <a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars" title="Yugoslav Wars">struggle</a> reminiscent of nothing so much as the ‘territorial displacement’ <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropologists</a> identify as the underlying logic of much ‘primitive’ warfare in tribal society. In the borderlands of the dissolved <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, from which the revolutionaries took their inspiration, a similar pattern discloses itself, as newly independent ‘minorities’ use their freedom from <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> control to revive ancient tribal hatreds and to re-fight wars, sometimes within rather than between tribes, which to outsiders appears to have no political point whatsoever. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keegan" class="extiw" title="w:John Keegan">John Keegan</a>, <i>A History of Warfare</i> (1994) pp. 54-55</li></ul></li> <li>The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8070">Message to Chairman Khrushchev Concerning the Meaning of Events in Cuba,"</a> April 18, 1961. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9100&st=&st1=">Address on the first Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress</a></i> (March 13, 1962); in <i>Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962</i>, p. 223</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Message" class="extiw" title="s:Civil Rights Message">Civil Rights Address</a> (June 11, 1963)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kennedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Kennedy">Robert Kennedy</a>, Speech in the United States Senate (9 May 1966)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Revolution is nothing other than the replacement of one given type of <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">Authority</a> with another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve" title="Alexandre Kojève">Alexandre Kojève</a>, <i>The Notion of Authority</i> (2020) [1942], p. 103</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dispossessed" class="mw-redirect" title="The Dispossessed">The Dispossessed</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ce n'est pas une révolte, c'est une révolution.</i> <ul><li>It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Alexandre_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric,_duc_de_la_Rochefoucauld-Liancourt" class="extiw" title="w:François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt">François Alexandre Frédéric</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Louis XVI">Louis XVI</a> (July 14, 1789). Found in Carlyle's <i>French Revolution</i>, Part I, Book V, Chapter VII</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right<b> — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world</b>. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Life_and_Works_of_Abraham_Lincoln/Volume_3/Arraignment_of_President_Polk_for_War_Against_Mexico#128" class="extiw" title="s:Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln/Volume 3/Arraignment of President Polk for War Against Mexico">Speech in the United States House of Representatives</a> (January 12, 1848)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This country, with its <a href="/wiki/Institutions" class="mw-redirect" title="Institutions">institutions</a>, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a>, in his <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln%27s_First_Inaugural_Address" class="extiw" title="s:Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address">First Inaugural Address</a> (4 March 1861)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change in established, outgrown responses; for instance, it is learning to address each other’s difference with respect. We share a common interest, survival, and it cannot be pursued in isolation from others simply because their differences make us uncomfortable. We know what it is to be lied to. The <a href="/wiki/1960s" title="1960s">60s</a> should teach us how important it is not to lie to ourselves. Not to believe that revolution is a one-time event, or something that happens around us rather than inside of us. Not to believe that freedom can belong to any one group of us without the others also being free. How important it is not to allow even our leaders to define us to ourselves, or to define our sources of power to us. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Audre_Lorde" title="Audre Lorde">Audre Lorde</a>, <i>Learning from the 60s</i>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Outsider" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sister Outsider">Sister Outsider</a>: Essays and Speeches</i>. Crossing Press. 1984. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89594-142-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89594-142-8">ISBN 978-0-89594-142-8</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3ASister+Outsider%7CSister+Outsider%5D%5D%3A+Essays+and+Speeches&rft.date=1984&rft.pub=Crossing+Press&rft.isbn=978-0-89594-142-8&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre" title="Joseph de Maistre">Joseph de Maistre</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Considerations_on_France" title="Considerations on France">Considerations on France</a></i> (1796), Ch. 1</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. A revolution is an <a href="/wiki/Insurrection" title="Insurrection">insurrection</a>, an act of <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> by which <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">one class overthrows another</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, as quoted in "Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon" (2006) by Trisha Ziff, p. 66</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution entails evolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Milstein" title="Cindy Milstein">Cindy Milstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA69">Anarchism and Its Aspirations</a></i>. AK Press. 1 May 2010. p. 69. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7">ISBN 978-1-84935-029-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anarchism+and+Its+Aspirations&rft.date=1+May+2010&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B69&rft.pub=AK+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-84935-029-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FAnarchism_and_Its_Aspirations%2FFQLRDgAAQBAJ%3Fhl%3Den-419%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA69&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Democracy finds its radical edge in the great revolutions of the past. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cindy_Milstein" title="Cindy Milstein">Cindy Milstein</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anarchism_and_Its_Aspirations/FQLRDgAAQBAJ?hl=en-419&gbpv=1&pg=PA102">Anarchism and Its Aspirations</a></i>. AK Press. 1 May 2010. p. 102. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84935-029-7">ISBN 978-1-84935-029-7</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Anarchism+and+Its+Aspirations&rft.date=1+May+2010&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B102&rft.pub=AK+Press&rft.isbn=978-1-84935-029-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fedition%2FAnarchism_and_Its_Aspirations%2FFQLRDgAAQBAJ%3Fhl%3Den-419%26gbpv%3D1%26pg%3DPA102&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutions are usually a matter of people picking up the power of a state in disintegration, a government that has lost the will to enforce its laws. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Reynolds_Myers" title="Brian Reynolds Myers">Brian Reynolds Myers</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://freekorea.us/2017/08/01/propaganda-in-the-age-of-kim-jong-un-a-discussion-with-professor-b-r-myers/#sthash.eScL76im.dpbs">interview with Joshua Stanton</a> (August 2017), <i>One Free Korea</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="extiw" title="w:Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a>, <i>Revolutionary Suicide</i> (1973)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a>, wipe out <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a>, capitalism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Huey_Newton" class="mw-redirect" title="Huey Newton">Huey Newton</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Suicide" class="extiw" title="w:Revolutionary Suicide">Revolutionary Suicide</a></i> (1973), p. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Robert_Oppenheimer" title="Robert Oppenheimer">J. Robert Oppenheimer</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Lawrence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ernest Lawrence">[Ernest] Lawrence</a>, you embrace the revolution in <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a>, can’t you see it everywhere else? <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Picasso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Igor_Stravinsky" title="Igor Stravinsky">Stravinsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sigmund_Freud" title="Sigmund Freud">Freud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a>... <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)" title="Oppenheimer (film)">Oppenheimer</a></i>, written and directed by <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a>, as interpreted by <a href="/wiki/Cillian_Murphy" title="Cillian Murphy">Cillian Murphy</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>True <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn’t love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat ALL people as we would ourselves - not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love’s radical conclusion. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez" title="Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">authoritarians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarians</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, in a letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), published in <i>Malcolm Muggeridge : A Life</i> (1980) by Ian Hunter</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Passivity" title="Passivity">Passivity</a> while slavery is stealing over us is a crime. For the moment we must forget that was are anarchists-when the work is accomplished we may forget that we were revolutionists-hence most <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchists</a> believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for <a href="/wiki/Peace" title="Peace">peace</a> at any price, except at the price of <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lucy_Parsons" title="Lucy Parsons">Lucy Parsons</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030626013810/http://www.tao.ca/~lucyparsons/ThePrinciplesofAnarchism.html">The Principles of Anarchism</a></i>, lecture printed without date of publication sometime in the 1890s</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everywhere revolutions are painful yet fruitful gestations of a people: they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Gonzalez_Prada" class="extiw" title="w:Manuel Gonzalez Prada">Manuel Gonzalez Prada</a>, <i>Horas de lucha</i> (1908)</li></ul></li> <li>Even more problematic is the insistence logically stemming from the presumption of social <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a> that all individual problems, no matter how rare, must be solved by cultural restructuring, no matter how <a href="/wiki/Radicalism" title="Radicalism">radical</a>. Our society faces the increasing call to deconstruct its stabilizing traditions to include smaller and smaller numbers of people who do not or will not fit into the categories upon which even our perceptions are based. This is not a good thing. Each person’s private trouble cannot be solved by a social revolution, because revolutions are destabilizing and dangerous. We have learned to live together and organize our complex societies slowly and incrementally, over vast stretches of time, and we do not understand with sufficient exactitude why what we are doing works. Thus, altering our ways of social being carelessly in the name of some ideological shibboleth (<a href="/wiki/Diversity" title="Diversity">diversity</a> springs to mind) is likely to produce far more trouble than good, given the suffering that even small revolutions generally produce. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" title="Jordan Peterson">Jordan Peterson</a>, <i>12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos</i> (2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a> in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of <a href="/wiki/Persecution" title="Persecution">persecution</a> is persecution. The object of <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">torture</a> is torture. The object of power is power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, in <i>1984</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the <a href="/wiki/Individuality" title="Individuality">individual</a> and with <a href="/wiki/Culture" title="Culture">culture</a>, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions and social structure are changing in consequence. It promises a higher reason, a more human community, and a new and liberated individual. Its ultimate creation will be a new and enduring wholeness and beauty — a renewed relationship of man to himself, to other men, to society, to nature, and to the land. <br /> <b>This is the revolution of the new <a href="/wiki/Generation" title="Generation">generation</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Reich" title="Charles A. Reich">Charles A. Reich</a>, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greening_of_America" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Greening of America">The Greening of America</a></i> (1970), Chapter I : The Coming American Revolution, p. 4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_consciousness" class="extiw" title="w:Political consciousness">conscious</a> people or <a href="/wiki/Class_consciousness" title="Class consciousness">class</a> on the stage of history. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Rodney" title="Walter Rodney">Walter Rodney</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Europe_Underdeveloped_Africa" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:How Europe Underdeveloped Africa">How Europe Underdeveloped Africa</a></i>. Howard University Press. 1972. p. 125. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9501546-4-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-9501546-4-0">ISBN 978-0-9501546-4-0</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5B%3Awikipedia%3AHow+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa%7CHow+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa%5D%5D&rft.date=1972&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B125&rft.pub=Howard+University+Press&rft.isbn=978-0-9501546-4-0&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, <i>The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses</i>, (1910)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><ul><li>Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them. If they attempt to shake off the yoke they still more estrange themselves from freedom, as by mistaking for it an unbridled license to which it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage, by their revolutions, to hand themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier than before.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau" title="Jean-Jacques Rousseau">Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a>, <i>Discourse on the Origin of Inequality</i></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Today, when the country is stifling in the clutches of economic disruption and war, and the vultures of counter-revolution are plotting its doom, the revolution must find the strength and the means to save it from crumbling and disintegrating. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <i>We Demand</i> (1917)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Revolution will not be televised. The Revolution will be no rerun, brothers. The Revolution — will be <i>live</i>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron" title="Gil Scott-Heron">Gil Scott-Heron</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised" class="extiw" title="w:The Revolution Will Not Be Televised">The Revolution Will Not Be Televised</a></i> (1971)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>O God! that one might read the book of fate,<br />And see the revolutions of the times<br />Make mountains level, and the continent<br />Weary of solid firmness, melt itself<br />Into the sea! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2"><i>Henry IV</i>, Part II</a> (c. 1597-99), Act III, scene 1, line 45</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always <a href="/wiki/Marx" class="mw-redirect" title="Marx">Marx</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lenin" class="mw-redirect" title="Lenin">Lenin</a> and revolution - real girls' talk. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nina_Simone" title="Nina Simone">Nina Simone</a>, as quoted in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.it/books?id=3TTVAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA154&dq=we+never+talked+about+men+or+clothes+or+other+such+inconsequential+things&hl=it&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN9Li0-_vuAhWKuKQKHYvBAI0Q6AEwAnoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=we%20never%20talked%20about%20men%20or%20clothes%20or%20other%20such%20inconsequential%20things&f=false">Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers' Band and How Black</a></i>, Rickey Vincent, ISBN <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781613744956" title="Special:BookSources/9781613744956">ISBN 9781613744956</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Many of the world's troubles are not due just to <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution—the revolution of rising expectations. In <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>, the masses now count for something. Tomorrow, they will count for more. And, for better or for worse, the future belongs to those who understand the hopes and fears of masses in ferment. The new nations want independence, including the inalienable able right to make their own mistakes. The people want respect — and something to eat every day. And they want something better for their children. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Stevenson">Adlai Stevenson</a>, in the concluding article in a series about his five-month trip around the world, in <i>The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson</i> (1974), vol. 5, p. 411; first published in <i>Look</i> (22 September 1953), p. 46</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Seditiosissimus quisque ignavus.</i> <ul><li>The most seditious is the most cowardly.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a>, <i>Annales</i> (AD 117), IV. 34</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the many politico-theological abuses of <a href="/wiki/The_Bible" title="The Bible">biblical</a> statements is the understanding of <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul</a>’s words [<a href="/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" title="Epistle to the Romans">Romans</a> 13:1-7] as justifying the anti-revolutionary bias of some churches, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Lutheran" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutheran">Lutheran</a>. But neither these words nor any other <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> statement deals with the methods of gaining political power. In Romans, Paul is addressing <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">eschatological</a> enthusiasts, not a revolutionary political movement. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Tillich" title="Paul Tillich">Paul Tillich</a>, <i>Systematic Theology</i>, Volume 3 (1963), p. 389</li></ul></li> <li><b>I am here to demand my <a href="/wiki/Rights" title="Rights">rights</a> and to hurl <a href="/wiki/Thunderbolts" class="mw-redirect" title="Thunderbolts">thunderbolts</a> at the men who would dare to cross the threshold of my <a href="/wiki/Masculinity" title="Masculinity">manhood</a>.</b> <ul><li>Henry McNeal Turner, "I Claim the Right of a Man" (1868)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/Dialectics" class="mw-redirect" title="Dialectics">dialectics</a>, we know everything contains positive and negative attributes. <a href="/wiki/Reform" title="Reform">Reforms</a> can be used to advance Revolution or to forestall Revolution. Dialectics inform us that when the negative dominates the positive in reform it becomes an obstacle on the road to freedom; it must give way to Revolution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kwame_Ture" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwame Ture">Kwame Ture</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power:_The_Politics_of_Liberation" class="extiw" title="w:Black Power: The Politics of Liberation">Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America</a></i>. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 10 November 1992. p. 188. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-679-74313-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-679-74313-2">ISBN 978-0-679-74313-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5Bw%3ABlack+Power%3A+The+Politics+of+Liberation%7CBlack+Power%3A+Politics+of+Liberation+in+America%5D%5D&rft.date=10+November+1992&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B188&rft.pub=Knopf+Doubleday+Publishing+Group&rft.isbn=978-0-679-74313-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> Afterword</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutionaries do not take to the path of spilling blood easily. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kwame_Ture" class="mw-redirect" title="Kwame Ture">Kwame Ture</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power:_The_Politics_of_Liberation" class="extiw" title="w:Black Power: The Politics of Liberation">Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America</a></i>. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 10 November 1992. p. 190. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-679-74313-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-679-74313-2">ISBN 978-0-679-74313-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%5B%5Bw%3ABlack+Power%3A+The+Politics+of+Liberation%7CBlack+Power%3A+Politics+of+Liberation+in+America%5D%5D&rft.date=10+November+1992&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B190&rft.pub=Knopf+Doubleday+Publishing+Group&rft.isbn=978-0-679-74313-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Revolution"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> Afterword</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="X">X</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: X"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Anytime you find somebody today who's afraid of the word 'revolution,' get him on out of your way. He's living in the wrong era. ... He hasn't awakened yet. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">Malcolm X</a>, in <i>By Any Means Necessary</i>, p. 21</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Revolution&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 672-73.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <i>Politics</i>, Book VII, Chapter IV</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton" title="Edward Bulwer-Lytton">Edward Bulwer-Lytton</a>, speech in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill (1866)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des révolutions à l'eau-rose?</i> <ul><li>Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Chamfort" title="Nicolas Chamfort">Nicolas Chamfort</a>, to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Marmontel" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jean-François Marmontel">Jean-François Marmontel</a>, who regretted the excesses of the French Revolution.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Je suis le signet qui marque la page où la révolution s'est arrêtée; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.</i> <ul><li>I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon I">Napoleon I</a>, to Count Molé</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wendell_Phillips" title="Wendell Phillips">Wendell Phillips</a>, speech on public opinion (28 January 1852)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Revolutions never go backward. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wendell_Phillips" title="Wendell Phillips">Wendell Phillips</a>, speech on progress (17 February 1861)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_H._Seward" title="William H. Seward">William H. 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