Stephen Harper Quotes

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

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.

Change has come to America.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.

Venezuela has changed forever.

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

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

This government will mark a rupture from the previous one, because that is the wish of the French people.

In politics experiments mean revolutions.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.