Revolutionary fervor Quotes

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present.

I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

In the 60s there were a lot of things which were anarchistic. May-June '68 was riddled by anarchistic sentiments, dreams and ideals, but insofar as this was not strengthened organizationally and intellectually by a very effective, powerful infrastructure, then what happens is the movement becomes dissipated.

I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

I was singularly struck to see the unanimous eruption of such keen and all-embracing sympathy for the revolt of a people against a king. The American insurrection took hold of the imagination like some fashion.

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

At first, an awful silence prevailed; at length, some cries of “Vive La République!” [Long Live the Republic] were heard. By degrees the voices multiplied, and in less than ten minutes, this cry, a thousand times repeated, became the universal shout of the multitude and every hat was in the air .... Many in the crowd went to the scaffold, and soaked their handkerchiefs in the Kings blood as a souvenir of the event.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.