Friedrich Engels Quotes

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

The hippy movement was a failure.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

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

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

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

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

Grasp Revolution

The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.

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

What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.