Hugo Lerchenfeld Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

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The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

The National Revolution has begun.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.

Revolutions are not easy.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.