Ernest Mandel Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

My job was to bring down the government, and I did that.

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

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

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

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

We are not politicians. We made our revolution to get the politicians out.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.