Rafael Cruz Quotes

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

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.

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

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.

I was born in revolution.

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

Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.

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

The “terror” of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

A dictator is often a revolutionary who has made a name for himself. A revolutionary is often a bourgeois who hasn't.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

There were people in Cuba who truly had substantial things to gain from revolution. There were people who had things to lose in the revolution. I think they're all allowed to have their memories of what happened.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.

I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a very cruel, oppressive dictatorship, and the revolution started in the high schools and the universities. So when I was 14, I was involved in the revolution. I was in the revolution four years. During that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up in Cuba, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.