Edward Heath Quotes

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

Grasp Revolution

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

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 means turning the wheel.

First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

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.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

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

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Revolution begins with one step

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

Revolutions never go backward.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.