Petra Kelly Quotes

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

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

Coups usually follow national humiliation.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

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

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another.

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.

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

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

Assassination has never yet changed the history of the world.

The Welfare Party will come to power either peacefully or with bloodshed.

The National Revolution has begun.

Never in our history has the country been confronted with so many revolutionary elements determined to destroy by force the government it stands for.

Assassins have never changed history.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.