#revolution

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#gloves #make #revolution #silk #you

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#about #armenian #bee #bee gees #freedom

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#dint #direction #done #give #made

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#against #dictatorship #exploited #revolution

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#coming #day #freshly #observed #off

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#here #i #revolution #revolutionary #stand

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

#doing #fifty #fighting #neither #nor

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#committees #conditions #councils #crises #highest

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#revolution #remember