Tariq Ali Quotes

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Grasp Revolution

If there is to be a revolution, there must be a revolutionary party.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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

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

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

Revolution, not elections!

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

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

One does not make revolutions by halves

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

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.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

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

Ready for the revolution!

“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!