Mao Zedong Quotes

It is needless to trouble your Lordship with daily Publications of determined resolutions not to obey the Acts of Parliament … The Country People are exercising in Arms… and getting Magazines of Arms and Ammunition … People are resorting to this town [Boston] for Protection…. Sedition flows copiously from the Pulpits. The Commissioners of Customs have thought it no longer safe or prudent to remain at Salem.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

In a democracy, when you have 20 million people in the street, you resign. Unfortunately, we don’t have a process of recall or impeachment as you have. It was a popular uprising rejecting Mr. Morsi’s continuing in power. Unfortunately, people had to call on the army to intervene. The army had to intervene because short of that, we would have ended up in a civil war.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!