Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

Communism will win.

The social revolution of the nineteenth century can not draw its poetry from the past, it can draw that only from the future.

Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

The future belongs to socialism

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

You can't just be a revolutionary for 40 or 50 years. That means compromising.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

The period of radical reform is finished.

What makes Progressives is their confidence in Progress.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

… revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.