Yair Lapid Quotes

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

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

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

If the Kaiser does not abdicate the social revolution is inevitable. I do not want it—in fact I hate it like sin.

In politics experiments mean revolutions.

Revolution is the duty of the worker and the peasant masses and not of just a few heroes, hence the necessity to organize these masses and draw them into the struggle.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

The agents that move politicks are the popular passions, and those are ever ... under the command of the disturbers of society.

Revolutions are like onions. You peel away layer after layer.

The Congress decisively rejects terrorism, i.e., the system of individual political assassinations, as being a method of political struggle which is most inexpedient at the present time, diverting the best forces from the urgent and imperatively necessary work of organization and agitation, destroying contact between the revolutionaries and the masses of the revolutionary classes of the population, and spreading both among the revolutionaries themselves and the population in general utterly distorted ideas of the aims and methods of struggle against the autocracy.

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.

Revolution is a transfer of property from class to class.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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.

Profound political shifts - events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances - do not happen every day in Europe, but neither are they unknown.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

There is not a revolution that succeeded in a few months. It takes years, even decades, to fulfill its goals. I am very hopeful because I trust the revolution and feel nobody can really conquer a nation that has decided to be united and to fight, and we decided to fight. The revolution is there, inside the Egyptians by the millions.

The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.