Ian Hacking Quotes

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

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

Ready for the revolution!

We are revolutionaries.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

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

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

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

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

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

“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!

The [American] Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

Every revolutionary movement ... proposes the greatest number of achievements possible.

The only books on revolution were published by communists.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Every revolution begins with someone whining.