The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with...

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.

Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families.”–Monsieur de Carnavant

Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!

You show me a capitalist, and I’ll show you a bloodsucker

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the...

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

—Écoutez, Coban, c’est terminé.—C’est commencé…

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won’t let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won’t have to be violent.

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one’s self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power,...

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. … And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less...

Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

De opstand gaat niet verder dan het doden van mensen; de revolutie moet mensen èn beginselen vernietigen. Om deze reden kan men ook zeggen dat de geschiedenis nog geen revolutie gekend heeft; er kan er...

The German experience brings us face to face with the major problem of the revolution in Western Europe. In these countries, the old bourgeois mode of production and the centuries-old civilisation which has developed with...

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is not personal heroism, nor martyrdom, but the creation of a happier world. Those...

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical,...

You know what show I thought was a riot? Live coverage of Egyptians overthrowing their government.

You don’t need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.

A conscience is easier to swallow on an empty belly, simpler to swing with a broken wrist. The people who hate money are the ones who don’t have any. The people who hate power are...

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and...

Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it....

Each of us lives with a sword over his head.There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are...

En la vida del revolucionario, la cárcel es un accidente de trabajo.

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right.

He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts...

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they’d like to put us to work rebuilding it, and — to add insult to injury — at a profit.

Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say ‘this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian’. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can...

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence onthe enemy,while confusingthe true class contradictionsbetween ourselves and the enemy.

Hablar de revoluciones, imaginar revoluciones, situarse mentalmente en el seno de una revolución, es hacerse un poco dueño del mundo. Quienes hablan de una revolución se ven llevados a hacerla. Es tan evidente que tal...

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.

Don’t just survive while waiting for someone’s revolution to clear your head.

You recreate your world to your taste with God’s Word in your mouth.

Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patched together in the same form — this is why it became such an imperative of global governance to stamp them out,...

If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong...