Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

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.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.