R Quotes
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“Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!”
“Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.”
“Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.”
“Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.”
Source: The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
“Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.”
“Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Revolution is but thought carried into action.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.”
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.”
“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The social revolution is only one of an infinite number of numbers: the law of revolution is not a social law, but an immeasurably greater one. It is a cosmic, universal law - like the laws of the conservation of energy and of the dissipation of energy (entropy).”
“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.”
“Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.”
Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader
“Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.”
Source: Rabbit, run ; Rabbit redux
“Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.”
“Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.”
“Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
“Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Revolution is my meditation.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.”
“Revolution is not a goal in itself.”
Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays
“Revolution is not a one time event.”
“Revolution is not an event! It's a process”
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”
“Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.”
“Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“Revolution is obstructed evolution.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Revolution is only truly revolution if it is a continuous struggle-not just an external struggle against an enemy, but an inner struggle, fighting and subduing all negative aspects which hinder or do damage to the course of the revolution. In this light, revolution is ... a mighty symphony of victory over the enemy and over oneself.”
“Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.”
Source: The Dispossessed
“Revolution is political, rebellion is spiritual. Revolution wants to change the outside world, rebellion changes your consciousness. Become a joyful rebel.
The society, the church, the establishment, the status quo, the mainstream media and the rich do not want people to grow up to mature individuals. They want to enslave people, to keep people afraid, dependent and obedient.
The spiritual journey means to first become a mature adult, and then to transform your consciousness so that you can attin to love, silence, joy, truth, freedom and to be one with the whole. That is to attain to the rebellion of the heart.”
Source: Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace
“Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.”
Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution
“Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.”
“Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Revolution is the foundation of civilization's evolution.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Revolution is the foundation of civilization's evolution, but it must be rooted in gentleness, not cancellation.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Revolution is the industry of young men.”
Source: The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set
“Revolution is the larva of civilization.”
“Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!”
“Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.”
“Revolution is when character expands a hundred folds, and love is placed at the altar of mind - when nothing in the world is so important, as the good of humankind.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.”
“Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.”
“Revolution means defending without descending.”
Source: Dervish Advaitam: Gospel of Sacred Feminines and Holy Fathers
“Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism”
Source: A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan
“Revolution means literally a complete reversal of the old power relationships, with its embedded institutions. So yes, we need a total revolution. It is time for the sacred to come forward, for we are indeed sacred beings. That much is clear from history. For too long we have been told: "That's the way things have always been done." Not true. Our earth and humanity has been around a long time, and there is a peaceful instinct inherent in human beings. There have been harmonious times in the past, and there is no reason for not working to achieve a greater humanity today. I strive to be part of that humanity. In The Women of La Raza, we learn of how much "today's values" have been forced upon us as "traditions" by colonizers who want us to behave within a certain mindset, conforming to the status quo. They consider profits first, despite the global conflicts and suffering it has caused throughout the centuries. It is past time for us to ask the kind of questions that gives us, not only answers, but places us in a quest for solutions to the spiritual and social problems facing the world today.”
“Revolution means re-evolution, that is, constant evolution - it doesn't mean de-evolution, that is, backward evolution.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“Revolution means turning the wheel.”
“Revolution meant shattering one structure and creating another one, but shattering was easier than creating, and so the two parts of the act were not necessarily fated to be equally successful. In that sense, building a revolution was like building an arch; until both columns were there, and the keystone in place, practically any disruption could bring the whole thing crashing down.”
Source: Green Mars
“Revolution never happens because it is acceptable, it happens because everything else turns unacceptable. World War 3 has already begun, but unlike the previous times, it is not a war amongst nations, rather it's a war within nations between the forces of inclusion and reason, and the forces of separatism and superstition. And this World War will continue much longer than the previous two times, for this time, it's a war against the elements of inhumanity within our society, within ourselves, which unlike the previous times, cannot be treated by simply shooting down. Guns kill segregationists, not segregation.
So this time, and now on, the revolution and all
the future revolutions must continue without
resorting to violence. I am not talking about
simply nonviolence, I am talking about having
an actual and utter repulsiveness towards
violence. This is the fundamental requirement of
a civilized revolution. Show strength through
your resolve, not through the eagerness for
violence. If a terrorist has a gun to your head,
don't fight, stare down at them till they drop the
gun (metaphorically speaking).”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams