Ferdinand Marcos Quotes

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

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

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

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

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.

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.

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

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

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

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

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.

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

“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!

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

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

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

… the evil genius of the revolution.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.