Henry Rollins Quotes

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

Only force would produce social change.

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory.

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

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.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Change will always be violent.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

If a revolution is to succeed, sometimes you must kill.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.