revolution Quotes

“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”

“The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind. ”

Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop?

Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

“In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize.”

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“It isn’t enough, what I’ve done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point. I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.”

“None of the people we lost were idiots. They knew what they were doing. They followed you because they believed you really could kill Snow.”

A storm you are, but a much needed one, to wash away the old and complacent and prune the galaxy of deadweight.

“Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!”

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners.”

“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.”

“In a way we’re like a revolutionary group-repossessing society by violence. It’s inevitable. Violence is no stranger to you. You’ve killed. Many times.”

“The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off, and we and all the people find ourselves under the open sky.”

“It seems to me that socialism is a sea into which all these personal, separate revolutions should flow, the sea of life, the sea of originality.”

“Chorus: One day the story will change: then shall the glory of women resound… Reversing at last the sad reputation of ladies.”

“It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don’t forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.”

“When the revolution happens, it will be because of this wedding.”

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”

“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”

“To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution.”