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Quotes on Revolution from Edward Abbey, Che' Guevara, Plato, Aristotle, Mao Tse Tung, Joeseph Goebells, I.R. A. martyrs, Mikhail Bukunin, Alan de Benoist, Margeret Meade, Jack London, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Elijah Muhammed, Malcolm X, Flannery O'Connor, Justic Hugo Williams, Robert the Bruce, Benito Mussolini, Robert J. Mathews, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Founding Fathers, Belgian Rexist, Anti-Fascists, Anarchists, Barry Goldwater, Jack London, Fredrick Engels, American Front, Troy Southgate, Sir Walter Scott, Ralph Nader, Fidel Castro, John S. Mosby, et. al.
Revolution
"People who make no noise are dangerous."
—La Fontaine
"Revolutions do not start with rifles; start first and get your rifles after. Our curse is our belief in our weakness. We are not weak, we are strong. Make up your mind to strike before your opportunity goes."
-James Connolly
"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves, we will evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!"
-James Connolly
"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. He launches himself against the conditions of the reigning institutions at a particular moment and dedicates himself with all the vigor that circumstances permit to breaking the mold of these institutions."
-Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
"It is not those who can inflict the most, but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."
-Terence MacSwiney
"The revolutionist believes not that what ought to be, is, but what is, is, and that it may not be what it ought to be at all."
-Jack London (Revolution and other essays)
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."
-Martin Luther
"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."
-Abbie Hoffman
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
-C.P. Snow
"He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong."
-Unknown
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-Mahatma Ghandi
"I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish."
-Eamonn Ceannt
"Smash the control machine, smash the control images!"
-William Seeward Burroughs
"Emanicipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley
"The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak."
-'Wavy Gravy', Musician
"You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun."
-Florynce Kennedy
"It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist: the insurrection can create them."
-Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
"By our audacious act, we break from the dominant mentality of this century and of the world. We kill in ourselves a world in order to build another, a higher one reaching to the heavens. The absolute sovereignty of money is broken to be replaced by the power of the spirit and of moral values. We do not deny and will not deny the role and necessity of the material in the world, but we do deny and always will its right to preeminence."
-Corneliu Codreanu, leader of the Romanian Legionary Movement
"Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are."
-Joeseph Goebbels
"...We are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."
-Edward R. Murrow
"There is one source, O Athenians, of all your defeats. It is that your citizens have ceased to be soldiers."
-Demosthenes
"Without a Peoples Army, the people, have nothing."
-Mao Zedong (Tse Tung)
"Those who make peacefull revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
-John F. Kennedy
"Violence is the universal objective law of all thorough national liberation revolutions."
General Vo Nguyen Giap
"A long forgotten wind is starting to blow. Do you hear the approaching thunder? It is that of the awakened Saxon. War is upon the land. The tyrants blood will flow."
-Robert Jay Mathews, Declaration Of War
"A people who want to win independence cannot confine themselves to ordinary methods of warfare. Mass insurrections, revolutionary warfare, guerilla detachments everywhere - such is the only way."
Frederick Engels
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
-An American Army Officer in Vietnam
"A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to death between the future and the past."
-Fidel Castro
"There is no revolution without violence. Those who don't accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary."
-Malcolm X
"If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be."
-Benito Mussolini
"In one sense the charge that I did not fight fair is true. I fought for success and not for display. There was no man in the Confederate Army who had less of the spirit of knight errantry in him, or who took a more practical view of war than I did."
-John S. Mosby, Confederate guerilla leader
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