C. S. Lewis Quotes

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

Only force would produce social change.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Never by my consent shall these rebels gain by this war increased political power, and come back here to wield that political power

Change will always be violent.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Revolution, not elections!

This government must go. It is our duty to make sure that it does go.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it turns out to be not what they meant, other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

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

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

The struggle is my life.