Revolutionary Quotes

They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas.

They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Be realistic, demand the impossible!

Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

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

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind.

Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously;

not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

If there is no justice for the people, there be no peace for the government.

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.

For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life.

But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria.

If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian.

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace.

But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!