Seth Godin Quotes

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Set Europe ablaze!

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

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Revolutions are never peaceful.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.