Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

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

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on the cusp, about to become something else, they find themselves in Shakespeare.

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

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

Revolutions never go backward.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.