“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.” PeopleMindFirstsBelieveMayMeanSometimesUsedGoalResultsStudyRevolutionProgramMethodCarefulObjectivesMotiveCharacteristicsConsiderationHistoricChanging Your Mind Author:Malcolm X
“You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.” ThinkingMeanTodaySocialGoalHoursStepsPathRevolutionTomorrowMiseryJustifyProvenEvery StepInhumanInhumanityUnattainableSocial RevolutionAfter Hours Author:Wilhelm Reich
“We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.” WayFirstsFeelingsGoalHurtMovementRevolutionExpectationsAccomplishExpectedAbsurdLiberation Author:Mary Blakely
“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.” WantHumansWarFactsBigsGovernmentFacesSpiritualValuesSocialSexGoalRightsMiddleRevolutionMajorityCivil RightsOppositionBrotherhoodSweepingFacetsUpheavalSocial RevolutionSpiritual Values Author:Johnny Carson
“There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.” FeelsYearsFightingNationsGoalUnitedMillionsRevolutionMonthsDecidedDecadesConquerHopeful Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.” WorldIdeasChristianSpiritualGoalLeaderMoralFeetEconomicCenturyMaterialsRevolutionCivilizationIdealsTraditionDestructionBasesFinalsJewSocialismCommunismAnarchyHonoredEconomic SystemsNineteen Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” MenMayFightingEvilIndividualGoalPovertyIgnoranceRevolutionSlaveryInjusticeVarietyReformCollectivesLive BySetting GoalsPredictableBerlinFighting Evil Author:Isaiah Berlin
“Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.” WorldArtIdeasIndividualForceGoalMemoriesStruggleConditionsRevolutionPromiseUltimateObjectivesPreservesChanging The WorldDesperateProductiveDominationUltimate GoalEnslavementFreedom And Happiness Book:The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics Source: The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics
“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.” ArtLostCausesGoalAchieveSourceRevolutionVictoryPursueSatisfyingDismayLost Cause Book:Moon Is Harsh Mistres Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres