Famous Quotes - Tags - Revolutionary

  • A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast. More
  • And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for... More
  • Constant revolutionizing of production ... distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.... More
  • Death is the most blessed dream. More
  • Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short... More
  • Dying people often become childish. More
  • England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove... More
  • Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not... More
  • Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. More
  • Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. More
  • From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. More
  • Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise. More
  • Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people’s body. More
  • History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men,... More
  • History will absolve me.
    [La historia me absolver .] More
  • How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down? More
  • I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [to] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute... More
  • I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that... More
  • Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. More
  • If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will... More
  • If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. More
  • In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. More
  • In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is... More
  • In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become... More
  • In Germany, the judicial system has been the whore of the German princes for centuries. More
  • In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a... More
  • In the language, in the slogans posted everywhere, in the only two newspapers published, among... More
  • Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. More
  • It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his... More
  • I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living. More
  • I’m their leader, I’ve got to follow them! More
  • Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from... More
  • Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain—at least... More
  • Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and... More
  • Love is a peculiar thing. More
  • Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious,... More
  • Murder begins where self-defense ends. More
  • Now you know Danton: in a few hours he will fall asleep in the arms of glory. More
  • O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! More
  • Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man. More
  • One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one... More
  • Our party’s most outstanding mediocrity. More
  • Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! More
  • People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we’d... More
  • Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood... More
  • Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon... More
  • Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. More
  • Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. More
  • Revolutions are always verbose. More
  • Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority. More
  • Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. More
  • That is a long word: forever! More
  • That is Lenin. Look at the self-willed, stubborn head. A real Russian peasant’s head with a few... More
  • The bourgeoisie ... has been the first to show what man’s activity can bring about. It has... More
  • The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. More
  • The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and... More
  • The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal... More
  • The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. More
  • The Federated Republic of Europe—the United States of Europe—that is what must be. National... More
  • The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not... More
  • The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories... More
  • The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. More
  • The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the... More
  • The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday. More
  • The literary “fellow travelers” of the Revolution. More
  • The power of the people and the power of reason are one. More
  • The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the... More
  • The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. More
  • The sin is in our thoughts. More
  • The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting—the war and... More
  • The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the... More
  • The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare... More
  • The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. More
  • The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries. More
  • The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. More
  • The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. More
  • There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. More
  • There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers... More
  • There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being... More
  • There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party... More
  • There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy. More
  • They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same. More
  • To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. More
  • Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points. More
  • We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end. More
  • We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. More
  • We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. More
  • We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and... More
  • Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one... More
  • Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave. More
  • Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free... More
  • You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you... More
  • You will have an affordable death. More
  • You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie. More
  • Your words smell of corpses. More

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