Revolutionary Ideology Quotes

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

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

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

How can you make a revolution without executions?

Only idiots think that the proletariat will win a majority right away. First we topple the bourgeoisie. Then we seize power. That is the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

I joined the RCP (Revolutionary Communist Party) in the early '80s. I'd be in it still but it was wound up at the end of the nineties.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

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

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

If you turn your people into bourgeois, you also turn them into pacifists.

We communist party members should infiltrate among the bandits....we can organize them into the struggle of revolution.