Jean-Paul Marat Quotes

An armed uprising is inevitable and the time for it fully ripe.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

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.

We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

… the most sacred right [revolution] to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

We are awaiting the moment when the fate of the Bostonians will be decided. General Gage will need much talent and much sagacity and patience to calm the spirit of insubordination which has possessed almost all the English colonists

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

Grasp Revolution

No one can stop a mass gathering of the people.