53 Inspiring Revolution Quotes

In a world constantly evolving, revolution stands as a powerful catalyst for change, challenging norms and inspiring movements across history. The spirit of revolution, driven by the desire for justice, equality, and progress, finds its voice through powerful quotes that encapsulate the essence of transformation. In this collection, we bring together 53 of the most inspiring revolution quotes from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who dared to dream and demanded change. These quotes not only echo the struggles and triumphs of the past but also motivate us to envision a future shaped by bold ideas and courageous action. Join us as we explore the words that have sparked change and continue to inspire a revolutionary spirit.

1. “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.” - Malcom X

3. “The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!” - Albert Einstein

4. “The first duty of a man is to think for himself” - Jose Marti

5. “There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.” - Warren Ellis

6. “What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?” - Robert Hughes

7. “...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.” - Mao Zedong

8. “The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.” - Kate Braverman

9. “On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.” - Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

10. “Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.” - Vladimir Lenin

11. “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

12. “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.” - Richelle Mead

13. “The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.” - Hugo Chavez

14. “Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.” - Victor Serge

15. “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.” - Malcolm X

16. “Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.” - Terry Eagleton

17. “For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.” - Jennifer Donnelly

18. “My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.” - Huey P. Newton

19. “We must overturn so many idols, the idol of self first of all, so that we can be humble, and only from our humility can learn to be redeemers, can learn to work together in the way the world really needs. Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty. True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.” - Oscar A. Romero

20. “Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.” - Victor Hugo

21. “Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.” - Malcolm X

22. “الكارثة الحقيقية هنا هي انهيار القيم والمبادئ والأخلاق، فكيف تكون الجهة المسؤولة عن الأمن وحماية المواطن هي ذاتها الجهةالتي أدارت لسنوات الجريمة المنظمة ومليشيات البلطجة وأطفال الشوارع والسرقة والنهب والاغتصاب؟ كيف تكون عربات الإسعاف والمطافئ وحتى الشرطة أدوات لسحق البشر؟ كيف يمتلك عناصر الشرطة القدرة النفسية على خلع رداء الأمن في لحظات وارتداء رداء البلطجية واللصوص؟؟ إننا نتحدث عن فعل شيزوفريني بحت، انقسام في رؤية الشخص إلى المجتمع وإلى نفسه وإلى طبيعة عمله ودوره في المجتمع.” - Ihab Omar

23. “Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.” - Fredric Jameson

24. “People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.” - Suzanne Collins

25. “What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messengers has any Gospel; nobody else has any good news; for the simple reason that nobody else has any news.Those runners gather impetus as they run. Ages afterwards they still speak as if something had just happened. Theyhave not lost the speed and momentum of messengers; they have hardly lost, as it were, the wild eyes of witnesses. In the Catholic Church, which is the cohort of the message, there are still those headlong acts of holiness that speak of something rapid and recent; a self-sacrifice that startles the world like a suicide. But it is not a suicide; it is not pessimistic; it is still as optimistic as St. Francis of the flowers and birds. It is newer in spirit than the newest schools of thought; and it is almost certainly on the eve of new triumphs. For these men serve a mother who seems to grow more beautiful as new generations rise up and call her blessed. We might sometimes fancy that the Church grows younger as the world grows old.” - G.K. Chesterton

26. “You don't need to go running from pillar to post looking for what God looks like.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

27. “So cheer up Beloved; for your God is able, He is the maker of all things.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

28. “God is not a thief. That which steals, kills and destroys is the devil - not God!” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

29. “Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

30. “God wants all man's attention, thoughts and focus to be on Him.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

31. “God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

32. “The presence of God is so important in the life of believers. There is abundance of all you need to make your life comfortable in His presence.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

33. “Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

34. “There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers.” - Isaac Asimov

35. “The Imperial forces must keep their hands off, but they find that they can do much even so. Each sector is encouraged to be suspicious of its neighbors. Within each sector, economic and social classes are encouraged to wage a kind of war with each other. The result is that all over Trantor it is impossible for the people to take united action. Everywhere, the people would rather fight each other than make a common stand against the central tyranny and the Empire rules without having to exert force.” - Isaac Asimov

36. “He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said. 'You are making a nation of Cromwells. But we can go beyond Cromwell, I hope. In fifteen years you tyrants and parasites will be gone. We shall have set up a republic, on the purest Roman model.” - Hilary Mantel

37. “remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT!” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

38. “Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men” - Victor Hugo

39. “Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

40. “Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.” - George Takei

41. “By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.” - Laurent Dubois

42. “A matured woman is therefore a responsible woman irrespective of her age, status and qualification.” - Agu, Jaachynma N.E.

43. “Ladies, get confident about yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man will adore you for life.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

44. “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].” - Ernesto Che Guevara

45. “If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.” - William S. Burroughs

46. “God takes us through life`s journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

47. “Be positive at all times! Leave out the negatives.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

48. “It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.” - Agu Jaachynma N E

49. “Light is life and always wins.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

50. “Desire to give and not always receive.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

51. “You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.” - Jaachynma N.E. Agu

52. “It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the philosophical anarchists were most convincing: society would fragmentise into independent, self-governing communities of mutually congenial individuals, requiring no police, no army, no guardians of morality, and no government. The old Deity being dead and dethroned, Humankind would come at last into power.” - Joyce Carol Oates

53. “One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.” - Bryant McGill