# Quotes about revolution - Quotes: 79 - Authors: 47 - Broader topic: [Quotes about politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.json ## Quotes > The wind of revolutions is not tractable. [Victor Hugo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo.md) · [Les Miserables](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables.md) · p. 898 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/victor-hugo/les-miserables/the-wind-of-revolutions.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [The Politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/the-politics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/the-politics/inferiors-revolt-in-order.md) Topics: [equality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/equality.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Fantasy. Lunacy. > > All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [David Mitchell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell.md) · [Cloud Atlas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas.md) · p. 326 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-mitchell/cloud-atlas/fantasy-lunacy-all.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Indigo was precisely the sort of person who would declare that a just revolution was worth a million deaths. As long as she wasn’t one of them, of course. [Genevieve Cogman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman.md) · [The Secret Chapter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-secret-chapter.md) · p. 294 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/genevieve-cogman/the-secret-chapter/indigo-was-precisely.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > A Revolution is nothing other than the replacement of one given type of Authority with another. [Alexandre Kojève](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve.md) · [The Notion of Authority](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve/the-notion-of-authority.md) · p. 103 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexandre-kojeve/the-notion-of-authority/a-revolution-is-nothing.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [authority figures](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/authority-figures.md) > The revolution needs artists, just like it needs healers and storytellers, just like it needs the organizers and protesters. It's all one big organism working together. [Akwaeke Emezi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi.md) · [Bitter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/akwaeke-emezi/bitter/the-revolution-needs.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > What's crazy is the idea that revolutionaries must shoot and bomb and kill, that revolution is the same as war. (p305) [Maxine Hong Kingston](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston.md) · [Tripmaster Monkey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/maxine-hong-kingston/tripmaster-monkey/whats-crazy-is-the.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden—which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution. [Rebecca Solnit](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit.md) · [Hope In The Dark](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rebecca-solnit/hope-in-the-dark/the-revolution-that.md) Topics: [imagination](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/imagination.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker. [Jordan B. Peterson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson.md) · [Maps of Meaning](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning.md) · p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jordan-b-peterson/maps-of-meaning/every-explorer-is-therefore.md) Topics: [peace](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/peace.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Revolutions are, by definition unpredictable. [Yuval Noah Harari](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yuval-noah-harari.md) · [Sapiens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yuval-noah-harari/sapiens.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/yuval-noah-harari/sapiens/revolutions-are-by-definition.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions. [Alastair Reynolds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds.md) · [Revelation Space](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/revelation-space.md) · p. 61 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/revelation-space/the-new-regime.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears. [Frederik Pohl](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl.md) · [The Space Merchants](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants.md) · p. 105 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/frederik-pohl/the-space-merchants/anybody-who-sets.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Sometimes the changes that are generated in a revolutionary period are rather trivial and do not last past the cycle. But sometimes, from a strong crisis, a revolution forges something new that lasts for centuries and represents progress toward values that are more rational and empathetic. In seeing this historical pattern, we must recognize what seems to be an overall human spirit that transcends any particular time and that keeps us evolving. If for any reason the cycle stopped, we would be doomed. [Robert Greene](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene.md) · [The Laws of Human Nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-greene/the-laws-of-human-nature/sometimes-the-changes.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > It was not socialism or communism or Islamism. It was romanticism. There is no more incandescent passion than love in a time of revolution. [Ian McDonald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald.md) · [The Dervish House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/the-dervish-house.md) · p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ian-mcdonald/the-dervish-house/it-was-not.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > I was trying to avoid the cliché all too common in science fiction, even today, of a whole population feeling itself oppressed and waiting only for a leader to rise in a body against its overlords. No government for which that was actually the case could last a minute. There must always be a majority who have some stake in things as they are, whether that stake consist of wealth and power or simply of law, order, and predictability. Moreover, most people cannot really imagine any system working which is very different from the one they are used to. Hence they find rationalizations for it. Even slaves often do this. [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md) · [The Long Way Home](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-long-way-home/i-was-trying.md) Topics: [conformity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conformity.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > If you’re a revolutionary, you shouldn’t have started a family. [Imre Kertész](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz.md) · [Liquidation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/imre-kertesz/liquidation/if-youre-a-revolutionary.md) Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth. [Roland Barthes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roland-barthes.md) · [Mythologies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roland-barthes/mythologies.md) · p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/roland-barthes/mythologies/the-bourgeoisie-hides.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/ideology.md) > Never underestimate the intrinsic, as opposed to ideological, conservatism of an idea like revolution once it’s got some momentum behind it. [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md) · [Singularity Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky.md) · p. 323 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/never-underestimate-the.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > It could be that our longing for Revolution is like our longing for perfect love, the impulse we all have for union that was for so long met by religion. However we assign these yearnings, it is difficult to ignore the obvious need for change. Some of us will ascribe it to romantic love, some to consumerism, some to utopianism. It doesn’t really matter. What is important is that for the first time in history we have the means to implement a truly representative system, the means to globally communicate it, and the conditions that require it. [Russell Brand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand.md) · [Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/russell-brand/revolution/it-could-be-that.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once. [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [The State Of The Art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-state-of-the-art.md) · p. 169 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-state-of-the-art/while-the-forces.md) Topics: [tyranny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > All the usual rules of uprising realpolitik still apply, especially that concerning the peculiar of dialectic of dissent which—simply stated—dictates that in all but the most dedicatedly repressive hegemonies, if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seem often to baffle the military and political mind. [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [The State Of The Art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-state-of-the-art.md) · p. 168 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/the-state-of-the-art/all-the-usual.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > All revolutions are to some degree about money. [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md) · [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md) · p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/all-revolutions-are.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy. [Mark Kurlansky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky.md) · [Cod](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod.md) · p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-kurlansky/cod/the-american-revolution.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > "Those of your time who fought hard for change, often they had myths that a revolution was inevitable. But nothing is! All things interlock. We are only one possible future..." (p177) [Marge Piercy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy.md) · [Woman on the Edge of Time](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/marge-piercy/woman-on-the-edge-of-time/those-of-your.md) Topics: [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > But when he ached, when he panted, when the world was too much with him, Marx and revolution held a wild temptation. Like cheap booze for a drunk, he thought wearily, except revolutions make people do even stupider things. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [Settling Accounts: Return Engagement](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement.md) · p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/settling-accounts-return-engagement/but-when-he-ached.md) Topics: [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit that there is any need for change. [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md) · [How Few Remain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain.md) · p. 355 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain/the-worst-revolutionaries.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards. [Francis Parkman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-parkman.md) · [Montcalm and Wolfe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-parkman/montcalm-and-wolfe.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-parkman/montcalm-and-wolfe/the-revolution-began.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > “An itchy man is prey to discontent; he’ll suage his flea bites with the blood of kings.” > > Surely the common man wouldn’t want that!” > > “What common men want most is beer and sex, without disturbances.” [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Shadow’s End](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end.md) · p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/shadows-end/an-itchy-man.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a new way. A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives—agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate. [Saul Alinsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky.md) · [Rules for Radicals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/men-dont-like.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. [Saul Alinsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky.md) · [Rules for Radicals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/saul-alinsky/rules-for-radicals/dostoevski-said-that.md) Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > ...there is never a "right moment" for the revolutionary act - the act is always, by definition, "premature". [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [In Defense of Lost Causes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/in-defense-of-lost-causes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/in-defense-of-lost-causes/there-is-never.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Actual history occurs, so the speak, on credit; only subsequent development will decide retroactively if the current revolutionary violence will be forgiven, legitimated, or if it will continue to exert a pressure on the shoulders of the present generation as its guilt, as its unsettled debt. [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/actual-history-occurs.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > If we merely wait for the appropriate moment we will never live to see it, because this [appropriate moment] cannot arrive without the subjective conditions of the maturity of the revolutionary force being fulfilled - it can only arrive after a series of failed attempts. [Slavoj Žižek](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek.md) · [The Sublime Object of Ideology](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/slavoj-zizek/the-sublime-object-of-ideology/if-we-merely.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > But now the Mob’s passing whim had become the only law, as Robespierre himself would soon discover. I felt cruelly betrayed: by the Revolution, by men I had embraced as brothers, by Circumstance, and, as always, by God. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md) · p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/but-now-the.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > “I was wondering what made a decent English army officer turn into a desperate revolutionist overnight,” I smiled. > > “It happens to many like that,” he said. “I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first... Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one’s own kind are cruel. Not to know cruelty is to remain innocent, eh? And we should all like to remain innocent. A revolutionist is a man who, perhaps, fails to keep his innocence but so desperately wants it back that he seeks to create a world where all shall be innocent in that way.” [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The Warlord of the Air](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air.md) · p. 135 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air/i-was-wondering.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [innocence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence.md) > History handed Lenin a gift in the shape of the First World War. He grasped it with both hands and used it to craft an insurrection. It is revolutions that make history happen. Liberals of every sort, with rare exceptions, are found on the other side. [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md) · [The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution.md) · p. 3 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution/history-handed-lenin.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Not even the largest party can 'make' or 'steal' a revolution, but the success of such an endeavor depends on the ability, lucidity, energy and single-mindedness of a revolutionary party when confronted with a prerevolutionary crisis. [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md) · [The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution.md) · p. 179 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution/not-even-the.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Revolutionary periods invariably encompass a huge fluctuation of political consciousness that can never be registered accurately by any referendum. [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md) · [The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution.md) · p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution/revolutionary-periods-invariably.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Why is insurrection an art? Because an armed uprising against he capitalist state or occupying imperialist armies has to be choreographed with precision, especially during its final stages. [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md) · [The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution.md) · p. 9 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/the-dilemmas-of-lenin-terrorism-war-empire-love-revolution/why-is-insurrection.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > "Life" in this "society" being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of "society" being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and eliminate the male sex. [Valerie Solanas](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas.md) · [SCUM Manifesto](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/life-in-this.md) Topics: [men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/men.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [feminism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/feminism.md) > If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means "going to the root of things," the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. True, it may have the aspect of revolutionary emotions. But one would not call that physician revolutionary who proceeds against a disease with violent cursing but the other who quietly, courageously and conscientiously studies and fights the causes of the disease. Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions. [Wilhelm Reich](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich.md) · [The Mass Psychology of Fascism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich/the-mass-psychology-of-fascism.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich/the-mass-psychology-of-fascism/if-by-being.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [rebellion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/rebellion.md) > Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development. To be radical, according to Marx, means "going to the root of things." If one goes to the root of things, if one understands their contradictory character, the means of mastering the reaction become plain. [Wilhelm Reich](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich.md) · [The Mass Psychology of Fascism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich/the-mass-psychology-of-fascism.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich/the-mass-psychology-of-fascism/revolutionary-practice-in-any.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. [Norman Mailer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer.md) · [Barbary Shore](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/barbary-shore.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/norman-mailer/barbary-shore/revolutions-are-the.md) Topics: [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Death had already taken John Coltrane, who was joined by now by so many others. People screamed there'd be revolutionary changes - which always seemed to be just ahead, at the curve in the road. But the "changes" that came were just two-dimensional stage sets, background without substance or meaning. [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/death-had-already.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [disappointment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/disappointment.md) > "And what is a revolution? It sure as hell isn't just changing the name on city hall." [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/and-what-is-a-revolution.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > "But it's the working class that keep things running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that?" [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/but-its-the.md) Topics: [work](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/work.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > "They're scared to death somebody's gonna find out they don't know something. They all read the same books and they all throw around the same words, and they get off listening to John Coltrane and seeing Pasolini movies. You call that 'revolution'?" [Haruki Murakami](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami.md) · [Norwegian Wood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/haruki-murakami/norwegian-wood/theyre-scared-to-death.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The most important characteristic to be maintained in any revolution is flexibility. [Shulamith Firestone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone.md) · [The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution.md) · p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/the-most-important.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, ‘What’s your alternative?’ But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to deflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them. [Shulamith Firestone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone.md) · [The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution.md) · p. 226 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/the-classic-trap.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Most revolutionary movements are unable to practise among themselves what they preach. Strong leadership cults, factionalism, ‘ego-tripping’, backbiting are the rule rather than the exception. [Shulamith Firestone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone.md) · [The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution.md) · p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/most-revolutionary-movements.md) Topics: [hypocrisy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The goals of feminism can never be achieved through evolution, but only through revolution. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. [Shulamith Firestone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone.md) · [The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution.md) · p. 31 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/the-goals-of-feminism.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious for . It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. Its aim: overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex – a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles an undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence. In this perspective, the pioneer Western was only the first onslaught, the fifty-year ridicule that followed it only a first counter-offensive – the dawn of a long struggle to break free from the oppressive power structures set up by nature and reinforced by man. [Shulamith Firestone](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone.md) · [The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution.md) · p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/shulamith-firestone/the-dialectic-of-sex-the-case-for-feminist-revolution/in-the-radical.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Undoubtedly, philosophy caused the Revolution. But what caused philosophy? Theological arrogance. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/undoubtedly-philosophy-caused.md) Topics: [philosophy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/philosophy.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser. [Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert.md) · [The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/they-want-to-shake.md) Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Those who say a demonstration should be concerned with education rather than theater don't understand either and will never organize a successful demonstration, or for that matter, a successful revolution. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Steal This Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/those-who-say.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [theatre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/theatre.md) > The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Revolution for the Hell of It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it.md) · p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it/the-best-way.md) Topics: [education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/education.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. The duty of a revolutionary is to make love and that means staying alive and free. That doesn't allow for cop-outs. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Steal This Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/your-body-is-just.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Revolution for the Hell of It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it/the-only-way.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > It's ridiculous to talk about a revolution without a few words on guns. If you haven't been in the army or done some hunting, you probably have a built in fear against guns that can only be overcome by familiarizing yourself with them. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Steal This Book](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/steal-this-book/its-ridiculous-to-talk.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [weapons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/weapons.md) > You ask, "What about the innocent bystanders?" But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent. [Abbie Hoffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman.md) · [Revolution for the Hell of It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it.md) · p. 183 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abbie-hoffman/revolution-for-the-hell-of-it/you-ask-what.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Revolution has to be rethought. Look, even when revolutions have been successful, they have caused so much destruction and hatred that there is always some kind of horrible backlash. It’s inherent in the method. If you choose violence, then you create enemies who will resist you forever. And ruthless men become your revolutionary leaders, so when the war is over they’re in power, and likely to be as bad as what they replaced. [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md) · [Green Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars.md) · p. 359 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars/revolution-has-to-be-rethought.md) Topics: [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > “It’s kind of scary,” Art remarked to Nadia. “Win a revolution and a bunch of lawyers pop out of the woodwork.” > > “Always.” [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md) · [Blue Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars.md) · p. 120 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/its-kind-of-scary.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [lawyers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lawyers.md) > After every revolution there is an interregnum, in which communities run themselves and all is well, and then the new regime comes in and screws things up. [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md) · [Blue Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars.md) · p. 156 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/blue-mars/after-every-revolution.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy. [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md) · [Green Mars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars.md) · p. 579 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/green-mars/revolution-suspends-habit.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [anarchism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anarchism.md) > In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over? [Paul Gauguin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin.md) · [The Writings Of A Savage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin/the-writings-of-a-savage.md) · p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin/the-writings-of-a-savage/in-art-there.md) Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Under Western Eyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes/the-scrupulous-and.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > “So far as I have listened, before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.” > > “Elementary. Go on.” > > “Well…high taxation is important and so is inflation of the currency and the ratio of the productive to those on the public payroll. But that’s old hat; everybody knows that a country is on the skids when its income and outgo get out of balance and stay that way—even though there are always endless attempts to wish it away by legislation.” [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [Friday](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/friday.md) · p. 240 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/friday/so-far-as-i-have.md) Topics: [the state](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-state.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > 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. [Robert A. Heinlein](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein.md) · [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/revolution-is-an-art.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > We have today the technical and material resources to meet man’s animal needs. We have not developed the cultural and moral resources or the democratic forms of social organization that make possible the humane and rational use of our material wealth and power. Conceivably, the classical liberal ideals, as expressed and developed in their libertarian socialist form, are achievable. But if so, only by a popular revolutionary movement, rooted in wide strata of the population, and committed to the elimination of repressive and authoritarian institutions, state and private. To create such a movement is the challenge we face and must meet if there is to be an escape from contemporary barbarism. [Noam Chomsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky.md) · [Government in the Future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future.md) · p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future/we-have-today.md) Topics: [democracy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/democracy.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > No rational person will approve of violence and terror, and in particular the terror of the post-revolutionary state that has fallen into the hands of a grim autocracy has more than once reached indescribable levels of savagery. At the same time, no person of understanding or humanity will too quickly condemn the violence that often occurs, when long subdued masses rise against their oppressors or take their first steps toward liberty and social reconstruction. [Noam Chomsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky.md) · [Government in the Future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future.md) · p. 137 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/noam-chomsky/government-in-the-future/no-rational-person.md) Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md), [violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/violence.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto. [Alexis de Tocqueville](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville.md) · [Democracy in America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alexis-de-tocqueville/democracy-in-america/if-there-ever.md) Topics: [America](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [social inequality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/social-inequality.md) > People arrive at a factory and perform a totally meaningless task from eight to five without question because the structure demands that it be that way. There’s no villain, no ‘mean guy’ who wants them to live meaningless lives, it’s just that the structure, the system demands it and no one is willing to take on the formidable task of changing the structure just because it is meaningless. But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repair of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself, and if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government. There’s so much talk about the system. And so little understanding [Robert M. Pirsig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig.md) · [Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-m-pirsig/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/people-arrive-at-a-factory.md) Topics: [thinking](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/thinking.md), [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The great become small, the rich poor, the king a commoner. Does fate strike so seldom that you can count on immunity from her blows? The crisis is approaching, and we are on the edge of a revolution. [Footnote: In my opinion it is impossible that the great kingdoms of Europe should last much longer. Each of them has had its period of splendour, after which it must inevitably decline. I have my own opinions as to the special applications of this general statement, but this is not the place to enter into details, and they are only too evident to everybody.] [Jean Jacques Rousseau](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau.md) · [Emile; or On Education](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-great-become.md) Topics: [fate](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fate.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > We consider that the Cuban Revolution contributed three fundamental lessons to the conduct of revolutionary movements in America. They are: (1) Popular forces can win a war against the army. (2) It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. (3) In underdeveloped America the countryside is the basic area for armed fighting. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/we-consider-that.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > From the very beginning of the struggle he has the intention of destroying an unjust order and therefore an intention, more or less hidden, to replace the old with something new. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/from-the-very.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/why-does-the.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > The part that the woman can play in the development of a revolutionary process is of extraordinary importance. It is well to emphasize this, since in all our countries, with their colonial mentality, there is a certain underestimation of the woman which becomes a real discrimination against her. The woman is capable of performing the most difficult tasks, of fighting beside the men; and despite current belief, she does not create conflicts of a sexual type in the troops. [Ernesto Che Guevara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara.md) · [Guerrilla Warfare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernesto-che-guevara/guerrilla-warfare/the-part-that.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/we-know-that.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [tyranny](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny.md), [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md) > All revolutions are doctrinal — such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity. [G. Chesterton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton.md) · [The Napoleon of Notting Hill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-napoleon-of-notting-hill.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-napoleon-of-notting-hill/all-revolutions-are.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [Christianity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/christianity.md)