Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

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.

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

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

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

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

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

Revolution, not elections!

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

The fall of the Berlin Wall is very much a sequel, a continuation of the story about Eastern Europe emerging from war and Communism. The notion of presenting history as a story also appealed to me very much, since that is the way I look at the events I cover as a reporter.