America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.