Revolution Quotes

Here are some famous inspirational quotes on revolution…

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

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

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara

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

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton

Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai E. Stevenson

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there’s only one, and that’s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
Rosa Luxemburg

The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.
H. Rap Brown

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
Herman Gorter

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Jose Bergamin

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.
Georg Buchner

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
Ernest Mandel

We’re in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
James Levine

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Germaine Greer

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

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not a onetime event.
Audre Lorde

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
Albert Camus

Revolutions are not made; they come.
Wendell Phillips

A revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel Castro