Political Uprising Quotes

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day — in some unknown serra — some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end

Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

If a sovereign oppresses his people to a great degree, they will rise and cut his head off.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

In the Arab Spring, that obviously came to a head in Syria. I found myself arguing for intervention, mainly just because I wanted things to get better, and I had this germ of liberal humanitarian interventionism.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.