Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

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

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.

People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

Revolution is not a one time event.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

I believe in permanent revolution.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

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

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

I am still praying for revolution.

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.