Paul Collier Quotes

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Every revolution begins with someone whining.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I was born in revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!