revolutionary Quotes

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

• 153
• life

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

• 104
• action

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

• 36
• feelings

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

• 17
• Talent

Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

• 15
• Idealism

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

• 12
• Learning

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

• 11
• Corruption

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

• 8
• Ideas

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

• 7
• coward

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

• 5
• argument

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

• 5
• Power

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

• 5
• Honor

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

• 4
• battle

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

• 3
• care

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

• 3
• entire

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

• 3
• asylum

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

• 3
• Right

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

• 3
• Loyalty

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

• 3
• Fascism

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

• 3
• Age

Тоз, който падне в бой за свобода, той не умира. Who fells in fight for freedom, doesn't dies.

• 2
• freedom

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

• 2
• argument

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

• 2
• england

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

• 2
• american

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

• 2
• brush

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

• 2
• head

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

• 2
• Struggle

Revolutions are always verbose.

• 2
• Revolution

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

• 2
• Revolution

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

• 2
• Politics

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

• 2
• Planning

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

• 2
• Patriotism

One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.

• 2
• Farming

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

• 2
• Evolution

No power can rule this head, who is ready to be separated from its body in the name of freedom and the good of all humanity. / Няма власт над оная глава, която е готова да се отдели от плещите си в името на свободата и за благото на цялото човечество.

• 1
• freedom

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

• 1
• liberty

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

• 1
• against

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

• 1
• end

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

• 1
• adventurer

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.

• 1
• advantage

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, the right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. Those are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

• 1
• Liberty

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

• 1
• Destruction

I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

• moment

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

• happening

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

• fired

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

• bad

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.

• work

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.

• life

My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.

• reality

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

• planning