Top 600 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Revolutionaries

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

The British are coming. One if by land, two if by sea.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City!

If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character of free subjects to the state of tributary slaves.

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.

I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli forces, and everything stops in these cities. This is the result of Oslo.

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion; moral goodness and the law of the masters are fused into one and the same divinity. The historical hero of the schoolroom is the man who obeys the law, and defends it against rebels.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.

That world is growing in this minute.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.