Havelock Ellis Quotes

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

Do not mistake that the ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Either the government will be given to us or we will take it.

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

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

a government which goes counter to the will of the nation must be overthrown at once... It is dangerous to drive the people to despair and force them to demand by violence that which they as yet seek only by constitutional means.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

These ignorants who rule Egypt with force and with security agencies --- I call upon them to fear Allah, to return to Allah, and to reach out to this people, which attributes power and honor to you. Otherwise, the people will soon trample you underfoot, Allah willing.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

The right of revolution is the inherent right of a people to cast out their rulers, change their policy, or effect radical reforms in their system of government or institutions, by force or a general uprising, when the legal and constitutional methods of making such changes have proved inadequate, or are so obstructed as to be unavailable.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Mass action culminates in armed insurrection and civil war.

The Welfare Party will come to power either peacefully or with bloodshed.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

Since governments take the right of death over people, it is not astonishing that people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.