Chiang Kai-shek Quotes

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Revolution is the duty of the worker and the peasant masses and not of just a few heroes, hence the necessity to organize these masses and draw them into the struggle.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

The workers will obtain the satisfaction of a number of material demands, and the moderates in the student movement and the teachers will put through important university reforms… There will be some progress of course, but nothing basic will have changed and we will continue to challenge the system as a whole… Besides, I don’t believe the revolution is possible overnight like that … these adjustments can only be imposed by revolutionary action.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. In America, possibly because of whatever the American dream is, this happens over and over again. These eras repeat.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

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

It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.

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.

The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy. Degeneracy can be fun but it's hard to keep up as a serious lifetime occupation.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women