Sri Aurobindo Quotes

It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

Revolutions are always the deepest memories of a people

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

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

Revolutions are not made for export

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

Nations are liable to various revolutions in the state of their minds, and extent of their knowledge, as well as in their power and wealth ….

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

Rebellions which overthrow the governments of Mexico cannot be called revolutions. A revolution is a radical change, and if there is anything that has never been changed in Mexico it is the method of putting new public functionaries into office by rebellion.

Revolution is a transfer of property from class to class.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

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

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