#revolution

The worst of revolutions is a restoration. ↗

— Charles James Fox

#revolutions #worst

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#classes #difficulty #economic #find #interests

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#art #done #epithet #masters #merited

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

#ideology #interpretation #liberation #main #man

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#change #charge #complaints #faces #remove

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#be grateful #children #grateful #must #revolution

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. ↗

— Fred Hampton

#never #revolution #revolutionary #you

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable. ↗

— Catharine A. MacKinnon

#marxism #rape #resistance #revolution #trauma

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. ↗

— Bela Kun

#council #dictatorship #established #firmly #governing

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#nature #revolutionary