Bassem Youssef Quotes

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Grasp Revolution

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

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

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

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

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

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

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.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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

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