The first duty of a man is to think for himself

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Peace, he’d said. And revolution. How could there be both?

To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live “society” is such a usurpation that even the sociologists wonder if they should abandon a concept that was, for a century, their...

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes,...

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.

Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.

Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in “Revolution,” the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn’t wait for the real Peasant Leader to...

Tapi, bila revolusi tidak terjadi hari ini, pasti akan terjadi juga suatu saat nanti…

Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of...

Those——”—here he flung out a terrible oath—”those people don’t know what their blind hands are sowing. They will know when our power is complete and we begin to mow down their cursed grass. They’ll know...

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don’t have clean water, when you don’t have a sewer system, when you don’t have electricity, and on top of that you live under one...

A commune of library employees in Moscow created an “extreme” commune in which all clothing – including undergarments – was collectivized. According to Mehnert, if a communard preferred to wear his or her own underclothes...

Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

Les révolutions sont de magnifiques improvisatrices. Un peu échevelées quelquefois.

The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our...

In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was ‘the son of a half-breed Indian squaw’...

Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you cannot jail the revolution.

If there was a spectre haunting France in the 1780’s, it was not that of revolution but that of state bankruptcy. The whole social and political structure of France stood in the way of tapping...

Create your world with God’s Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution comes from the people as they reach toward God, and a...

I don’t know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It’s difficult to say. But [if it doesn’t] . . . don’t come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I’ve had...

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A...

Dona Laura, ao ver a casa encher-se de bocas – e pressentido que isso de golpes de Estado era coisa para levar o seu tempo -, apressou-se, de faca e alguidar, em direcção às capoeiras,...

She’s got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.

…the real danger does not stem from those who seek to grab their share of wealth through force, or from those who try to defend their property through violence, for both of these groups, by...

I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write,...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they’re a...

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And...

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Ivanov- “Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent…””Yes,” said Rubashov. “So...