Revolution proverbs

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◆ Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

- Bob Marley99

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

- Richelle Mead99

◆ The first duty of a man is to think for himself

- José Martí99

◆ If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

- Malcolm X99

◆ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt99

◆ You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

- Malcolm X99

◆ Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

- Ana?s Nin99

◆ If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

- Marie Lu99

◆ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

- Aristotle99

◆ The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

- Vladimir Lenin99

◆ The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

- Albert Einstein99

◆ Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

- Leon Trotsky99