Christopher Hitchens Quotes

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

I was born in revolution.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

Revolution, not elections!

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

Revolutions, when they erupt, appear to the elites and the establishment to be sudden and unexpected. This is because the real work of revolutionary ferment and consciousness is unseen by the mainstream society, noticed only after it has largely been completed.

There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?