216 quotes found
“A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, i...”
“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went...”
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever b...”
“An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.”
“They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants rooms because they didnt believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having cle...”
“But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.”
“Another said , "I don't ask six months, I don't ask two. In less than two weeks we'll meet the government face to face. With twenty-five thousand men we can make our stand.”
“In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet.”
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterr...”
“At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of Apr...”
“Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution,...”
“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 protecting the...”
“The concurrence of two elements is necessary for bringing about a revolution; and by revolution I do not mean the street warfare, nor the bloody conflicts of two partiesboth being mere incidents de...”
“The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must ...”
“Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I was always challenging myself about what had led me there ...”
“A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!”
“The amazing thing is nobody has to believe in anything all they have to do is be wiling to try.”
“Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.”
“Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.”
“There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!”
