Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Quotes

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Only force would produce social change.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

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

Revolutions are not easy.

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

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!

Revolution begins with one step

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

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

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

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

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

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

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot of folks' efforts to push it in one direction or the other have to combine.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence