Robert Bourassa Quotes

Grasp Revolution

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Revolution, not elections!

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

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.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

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

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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

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

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

“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.

The National Revolution has begun.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

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

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.