Edward Grey Quotes

Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means....

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

We did not have a revolution in order to have a democracy.

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

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. I want to see the Liberal party throw its heart and soul fearlessly into reform so as to prevent a reaction from the present state of things and the violent revolution that would inevitably follow it.

Reforms are less to be dreaded than revolutions, for they cause less reaction.

We can surely boast of having set the world a beautiful example of a government reformed by reason alone, without bloodshed.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

Constant, patient reform—the only kind of reform compatible with Democratic stability—is unsatisfying.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day — in some unknown serra — some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

The period of radical reform is finished.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The courts may be the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change.

If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.