Henry Lawson Quotes

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

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

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

One cannot pretend that the sending of a dozen men to a country will lead to a revolution.

A party as such, in the course of the development of a revolution, becomes identical with the revolution.

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

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

The tea has been thrown overboard. The revolution of 1860 has been initiated.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

We must continually stimulate the living politics of the street...it will be our task to try and break it (elections for the National Assembly) up by force.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Campaigns end, revolutions endure.

This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.

At university, my generation were ready to fight, but we didn't really have anything to fight for.

The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

People movements have heralded a new era of Taiwan politics.