Quotes and Sayings about Revolution

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Power

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays

History

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

George Orwell in 1984

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Motivation Good & Evil

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration of every free man.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Freedom

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King

Opinions

You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

Mohammed Morsi

2011 Egypt Saudi Arabia Syria

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

Silence

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

History

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

Freedom

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

Walt Whitman

Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

Simeon Weisz in Lord of War - Händler des Todes

Weapons Governments

The people's rage. It is like an illness, an ulcer. And ulcers must be cauterized.

Princess Sophia in The Empress - Season 1 Episode 1

I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

Emmeline Pankhurst

You have to make some noise if you want to be heard.

Eudoria Holmes in Enola Holmes

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

William Godwin

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Hu Shih

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Millard Fillmore

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Bhagat Singh

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall!

Pawan Kalyan

There is no power above people power.

Mohammed Morsi

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

Studs Terkel

Democracy

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King

Freedom

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Words Ideas

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Bruce Springsteen

Leaders

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Opinions

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel

Bullying

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

It's dangerous to keep quiet for too long. Your tongue shrivels up if you don't use it.

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Talking

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

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The police are either incompetent or corrupt. Or both.

Assane Diop in Lupin - Season 2 Episode 1

Police

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Earl Warren

Police

My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say "Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job" all the f*cking time.

Banksy

Police

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King

Faith

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Braveheart

History

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Edmund Burke

Slavery

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

The world is not uni-cultural. We must live together rather than seeking to dominate each other. The people in the world cannot accept domination anymore.

Mohammed Morsi

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

History

Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

Fidel Castro

Venezuela

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Kindness

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Heather Brewer in First Kill

Books

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