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We live for the purpose of loving
—  we love for the purpose of living.
A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.
— Debasish Mridha
By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is not a dream to be dreamed but a story to be written.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.
— Debasish Mridha
Be silent and listen to the song of your soul.
— Debasish Mridha
Be selfless to be helpful.
— Debasish Mridha
A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother.
— Debasish Mridha
My life's message is my kindness and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Embrace the magnificence that is inside you.
— Debasish Mridha
The sky is not the limit, but my thoughts are.
— Debasish Mridha
By empowering women, we empower the nation.
— Debasish Mridha
Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.
— Debasish Mridha
Like the fragrance of a flower, our actions reveal the beauty of your life.
— Debasish Mridha
The more you know, the more you yearn for knowledge.
— Debasish Mridha
We must be courageous yet humble and do what is right not what will make you popular,
— Debasish Mridha
It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care.
— Debasish Mridha
Giving opens the door to abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
When you learn to see the beauty in emptiness, your life will become more abundant.
— Debasish Mridha
At the end, nothing will remain except the poetry of your love.
— Debasish Mridha
Never feel powerless when you have the power of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Love as is love is the oxygen of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Be fresh like a flower, be loving like water.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a success, dare to go beyond your fear and doubts.
— Debasish Mridha
Philosophy is so interesting that it makes you feel boring.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing can dim the light of your love.
— Debasish Mridha
Every single moment is your life, so enjoy the moment to enjoy your life fully.
— Debasish Mridha
Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
— Debasish Mridha
Nature understands you more than you understand nature. Nature is your true mother.
— Debasish Mridha
By forgiving we become free.
— Debasish Mridha
By letting go we become free to accept what is new.
— Debasish Mridha
A true friend is a reflection of yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
When a president's popularity grows, the he is doing wrong things.
— Debasish Mridha
Losing something is difficult while gaining something is easier. So try to gain beauty and make your life prettier.
— Debasish Mridha
This is your life so fill it with beauty and love.
— Debasish Mridha
Hold on to those who are your true friends.
— Debasish Mridha
Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Problems are not roadblocks, but exercise tools.
— Debasish Mridha
My mission in life is not only to enjoy life, but to help others to feel the joy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the best weapon.
— Debasish Mridha
Not everyone can see that everything has some beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is the only boat we can ride in to reach the island of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Education is the transportation of the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a dream so dream big!
— Debasish Mridha
I don't believe in miracles. My life is a miracle.
— Debasish Mridha
Listen to the song of your heart, now follow the melody.
— Debasish Mridha
We are always searching for a cave to fit in.
— Debasish Mridha
Embrace the god of love to keep away the evils of hatred.
— Debasish Mridha
The beauty of life is not a lack of darkness, but it is in the presence of light.
— Debasish Mridha
You are incredible, amazing, and magical.
— Debasish Mridha
Before you can change your life for the better, change your thoughts for the better.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the silent purpose of all existence.
— Debasish Mridha
Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.
— Debasish Mridha
Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is magic. Life is a miracle. Life is an awful beautiful ride.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing is true, nothing is real except love and our perception of love.
— Debasish Mridha
What you see is not real. It is a misinterpretation of our false perceptions.
— Debasish Mridha
Be compassionate and kind to yourself and everyone around you.
— Debasish Mridha
We always fail to recognize when we are at fault, but we are always eager to blame others.
— Debasish Mridha
Lose yourself in the magic of love.
— Debasish Mridha
Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us be wild and weird with love for humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Be so strong that no one can ignore you.
— Debasish Mridha
Be true to your love to be true to yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.
— Debasish Mridha
Let the light of hope always enlighten your soul.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us pray for wisdom not for superstitions.
— Debasish Mridha
Love the world as the mother loves her little child.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not impossible to live in love, with love, for love and then become love.
— Debasish Mridha
No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.
— Debasish Mridha
No one can help us except our own thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
Love what your heart sees, and be what you want to be.
— Debasish Mridha
Do what is best for you--no matter what others think.
— Debasish Mridha
Love who you are. Love and be what you want to be.
— Debasish Mridha
To find the joy of life, let us love our life unconditionally.
— Debasish Mridha
For this moment and forever, you are my love.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
Your mission on earth is to transform, transcend and transpire.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing goes with you except the love that you gave away.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't eat too much, and never forget to love too much.
— Debasish Mridha
Let the light of love enlighten the whole world. Let the power of love overpower all the evils.
— Debasish Mridha
We are not here to fear, we are here to hope and dreams to win the world.
— Debasish Mridha
To find yourself, lose yourself in search of knowledge and love.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no beauty equal to the beauty of your soul.
— Debasish Mridha
If you dare to dream you can create yourself again and again.
— Debasish Mridha
You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power.
— Debasish Mridha
Good thoughts without actions are like a ship stuck in a port.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not the stongest person who wins in life, but it is the most nimble, flexible, and adaptive person who wins in life.
— Debasish Mridha
Wisdom is the ultimate blooms of a tree we call life.
— Debasish Mridha
By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty, for sure we can change our society.
— Debasish Mridha
By giving away we feel rich
—  by hoarding we feel poor.
Kindness is the best style that you can wear anytime and anywhere.
— Debasish Mridha
May the light of the morning sun shine upon you. May the deepest and sweetest love always find you.
— Debasish Mridha
A little dust does not make an ocean dirty. By blaming you change the society by making a lot of dust. By taking systematic actions and by focusing on beauty- for sure we can change our society and clean up the dust.
— Debasish Mridha
Speed of life is a killer not a healer, so slow down to bloom like a flower.
— Debasish Mridha
Flowers carry not only beauty but also the silent song of love. You just have to feel it.
— Debasish Mridha
Train your eyes to see the beauty in every little thing.
— Debasish Mridha
Wake up,dance with the light of the morning sun.Enjoy the warmth of her love,fell the joy of life,feel the joy of deepest gratitude.
— Debasish Mridha
I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature.
— Debasish Mridha
Shine from within, your soul is your light.
— Debasish Mridha
Choose carefully. Success in life depends on the choices you make.
— Debasish Mridha
Before you expect anything, try to give something.
— Debasish Mridha
I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain.
— Debasish Mridha
See the beauty in the hearts of people and help them to discover it.
— Debasish Mridha
It is easier to love people than to talk to them.
— Debasish Mridha
You can't explain your life: you have to reveal it.
— Debasish Mridha
You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
Be your own best friend and unlock the fountain of beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
The things we love are secretly loving us in return.
— Debasish Mridha
The more you learn to forgive others
—  the more you gain the power of love.
Catch the good point and appreciate it.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy a stress free life, enjoy what you have-not what you think you deserve.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing is everlasting, everything is transforming like a wave in the ocean.
— Debasish Mridha
Sing your song as you like to do,don't worry about who is listening to you.
— Debasish Mridha
In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.
— Debasish Mridha
Love everyone today as if today is the last day of your life.
— Debasish Mridha
The power of love is real whether you can see it or not.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't ever lest small stuff derail you from dreams.
— Debasish Mridha
Religion is a veil that we often use to cover our ugliness.
— Debasish Mridha
When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.
— Debasish Mridha
An imaginative person can be spiritual but can't be religious.
— Debasish Mridha
Someone with a deeper inner awareness will not be bothered by outer irritation.
— Debasish Mridha
Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom.
— Debasish Mridha
In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
— Debasish Mridha
Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.
— Debasish Mridha
The more I love, the more I find opportunites to love and wonder.
— Debasish Mridha
Learn from the past but don't forget to live for the present moment. This moment is your life.
— Debasish Mridha
Go out of societal conformity to see and create uplifting beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Everyone has beautiful eyes but they often see ugliness not the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
You can't solve a problem: but problems will dissolve in you.
— Debasish Mridha
Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away.
— Debasish Mridha
Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.
— Debasish Mridha
Expect abundance to receive abundance.
— Debasish Mridha
We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.
— Debasish Mridha
Troubles are not always terrible, but they are a gentle reminder to grow.
— Debasish Mridha
Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it.
— Debasish Mridha
Your dreams will take you where you belong.
— Debasish Mridha
Writing is a process of creating yourself again and again for an ever-searching mind.
— Debasish Mridha
The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy.
— Debasish Mridha
Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.
— Debasish Mridha
We are our best friend and worst enemy we wil ever fight with. Time is our enemy, but how can we fight even when time will wipe us out?
— Debasish Mridha
You will always end up doing what is better for you.
— Debasish Mridha
An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.
— Debasish Mridha
Miracles are always there, look around and you will find them.
— Debasish Mridha
Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.
— Debasish Mridha
If you keep going with a definite purpose, you will find the way and reach the destination.
— Debasish Mridha
Wisdom comes from introspection.
— Debasish Mridha
Shine as if you are the sun.
— Debasish Mridha
Problems are the guiding lights along the way of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The moon is the same but the observers are different.
— Debasish Mridha
The ability to win increases when you do not fear to struggle.
— Debasish Mridha
The cure for love is the love itself.
— Debasish Mridha
Swim in the stream of beauty of love to reach the shores of life.
— Debasish Mridha
You are not in love. Love is inside you longing for expression.
— Debasish Mridha
Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.
— Debasish Mridha
The time you spend loving is the most valuable time.
— Debasish Mridha
It is not important what you see, but it is important the way you see it.
— Debasish Mridha
You will achieve great success when you find happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no success other than happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
A loving heart is the source of all happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Enduring happiness only comes when you share your happiness with others.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.
— Debasish Mridha
We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.
— Debasish Mridha
It is easier to set a limit for yourself, but if you do so you will never reach your true potential. You have an obligation to live up to your potential.
— Debasish Mridha
How people treat you is not very important but how you react to it, is very important.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have.
— Debasish Mridha
Whatever you do, love everybody around you.
— Debasish Mridha
Be a tree of love and let it bloom with flowers of happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Today-be the sunshine in someone's life.
— Debasish Mridha
Reach out to help others when they need it
—  help them to find what they really need.
What you see with your eyes are transient and ephemeral,What you see through your heart is everlasting and eternal.
— Debasish Mridha
Love is my love, love is my religion.
— Debasish Mridha
There is no way to love, love is the way of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Problems are always there for those who are looking for themSo look for the solution, not the road block or the problem.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is simple and short but love is infinite and eternal. So give it away, as much as you can, without judging anyone.
— Debasish Mridha
Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution.
— Debasish Mridha
Always love your enemies. It will destroy them forever.
— Debasish Mridha
Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.
— Debasish Mridha
When you love your work then it isn't work, it's your love affair.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.
— Debasish Mridha
When you have true love in your heart,You will never be depressed or fall apart.
— Debasish Mridha
Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
— Debasish Mridha
When we will learn to seeThere is no you and me but only weThen in this world peace will be.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness depends on perception, not on possessions.
— Debasish Mridha
Success is the moon and happiness is moonlight.
— Debasish Mridha
We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines
—  if that isn't insanity than what is?
Clouds can never hide the sun forever
—  so don't complain about clouds but never forget to welcome the sun.
Life is in infinite motion
—  at the same time it is motionless.
We seek salvation through religion. But more often than not, religion fills our head with hatred and empties our heart of love.
— Debasish Mridha
To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.
— Debasish Mridha
Nothing is more magical than love.Nothing is more real than love.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is magical. If life had no magic, it would be tragic.
— Debasish Mridha
When we help others to live peacefully our life unknowingly becomes peaceful.
— Debasish Mridha
Let us see our life through the lens of our love,we will find that life is amazing and magical.
— Debasish Mridha
To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.
— Debasish Mridha
My purpose of writing is to express my love for you,no matter, who you are, where you live or whatever you do.
— Debasish Mridha
For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace.
— Debasish Mridha
No one can ever win by defeating someone
—  you only win by letting someone win.
Life has its ugliness and ups and downs, but look for the beauty and you will find it.
— Debasish Mridha
In life, you will always find what you are looking for.
— Debasish Mridha
I am writing just to inspire you, encourage you, empower you, and give you hope when you are fighting your life's battle.
— Debasish Mridha
When you write and when you read, you are living in a different world.
— Debasish Mridha
Drink the ecstasy of life and write about it.
— Debasish Mridha
You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.
— Debasish Mridha
Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.
— Debasish Mridha
If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.
— Debasish Mridha
I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.
— Debasish Mridha
If you don't read you will have nothing to write.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.
— Debasish Mridha
Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.
— Debasish Mridha
Writing is a great way of talking with an endless audience for never-ending time.
— Debasish Mridha
Truth is what you think, not what you find.
— Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.
— Debasish Mridha
I write to express my love for the humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the essence and evidence of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Write what you want to write
—  don't fear about who will read it.
Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.
— Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
There are decades where nothing happens
—  and there are weeks where decades happen.
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 Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
— Tennessee Williams
Revolution is not a one time event.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
— Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.
— Subcomandante Marcos
There is no final one
—  revolutions are infinite.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
— Emiliano Zapata
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
— Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
— Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly
—  the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.
— Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
— Huey P. Newton
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
— Emma Goldman
Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.
— The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
— Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. 
— George Lincoln Rockwell
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor.
— The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection
You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.
— Sherry Thomas, The Burning Sky
When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms, and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
— Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
— Louis Farrakhan
Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
— Tennessee Williams
Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied “The revolution is not being televised” in paint pen. It was a “pointless” action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this. It was an act of love for that “hooligan” Arundhati Roy. It was an act of self-love. I don’t expect it to change the world, but on the other hand, I know it will.
— Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Relegated as he was to a corner and as though sheltered behind the billiard table, the soldiers, their eyes fixed upon Enjolras, had not even noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat the order: 'Take aim!' when suddenly they heard a powerful voice cry out beside them, 'Vive la Republique! Count me in.'Grantaire was on his feet. The immense glare of the whole combat he had missed and in which he had not been, appeared in the flashing eyes of the transfigured drunkard.He repeated, 'Vive la Republique!' crossed the room firmly, and took his place in front of the muskets beside Enjolras.'Two at one shot,' he said.And, turning toward Enjolras gently, he said to him, 'Will you permit it?'Enjolras shook his hand with a smile.The smile had not finished before the report was heard.Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained backed up against the wall is if the bullets had nailed him there. Except that his head was tilted. Grantaire, struck down, collapsed at his feet.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.
— Jonathan Feldman
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.
— Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out.
— The Beatles
The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right.
— Stathis Kouvelakis, Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx
Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.
— Émile Zola, The Fortune of the Rougons
Think about it: virtually every atrocity in the history of humankind was enabled by a populace that turned away from a reality that seemed too painful to face, while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made possibly by a group of people who chose to bear witness and demanded that others bear witness as well.
— Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.
— Victor Serge
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set to-day a votive stone;That memory may their deed redeem,When, like our sires, our sons are gone.Spirit, that made those heroes dareTo die, and leave their children free,Bid Time and Nature gently spareThe shaft we raise to them and thee.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generatethem.
— Pierre Trudeau
The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth pondering by those who read books about the seventeenth-century radicals, no less than by those who write them. Were you doers or talkers only? Bunyan asked his generation. What canst thou say?
— Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.
— Friedrich Hecker
It is impossible to understand how millions and millions of people all obey a sickly collection of gentlemen that call themselves 'Government!' The word, I expect, frightens people. It is a form of planetary hypnosis, and very unhealthy.""It has been going on for years," I said. "And it only occurred to relatively few to disobey and make what they call revolutions. If they won their revolutions, which they occasionally did, they made more governments, sometimes more cruel and stupid than the last.""Men are very difficult to understand," said Carmella. "Let's hope they all freeze to death. I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for themselves, instead of always being told what to do and think by advertisements, cinemas, policemen, and parliaments.
— Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.
— Russell Brand
We seek to uncoverbehind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement, references which in most casesexplain nothing and teach nobody. Revolutions take place according to certain laws. This does not mean that the masses in action are aware of the laws of revolution, but it does mean that the changes in mass consciousness are not accidental, but are subject to an objective necessity which is capable of theoretic explanation, and thus makes both prophecy and leadership possible.
— Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian Revolution
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you﻿ have no regime.
— Jon Stewart
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius - a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in in general circulation. "A genius working alone," he says, "is invariably ignored as a lunatic."The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find; a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. "A person like this working alone," says Slazinger, "can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shaped should be."The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. "He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting," says Slazinger. "Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.
— Christopher Hitchens
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
— Hugo Chávez
La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres. || The revolution benefits the poor, the ignorant, who all his life has been a slave, the unfortunate who do not know if they are is because the rich becomes the tears, sweat and blood of the poor in gold.
— Mariano Azuela, Los de abajo
I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections on the French Revolution
Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
He looked the Prince up and down, like a hangman taking his measurements. 'Of course there will be a revolution,' he said. 'You are making a nation of Cromwells. But we can go beyond Cromwell, I hope. In fifteen years you tyrants and parasites will be gone. We shall have set up a republic, on the purest Roman model.
— Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety
Everyone ate as a group, and a huge cauldron of dumpster-dived gruel bubbled over a campfire, tended by a grubby-handed group of chefs dicing potatoes and onions on a piece of cardboard on the ground. Huck [Finn] may have been right that a 'barrel of odds and ends' where the 'juice kind of swaps around' makes for better victuals, but it occurred to me that the revolution may well get dysentery.
— Matthew Power, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.
— Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.
— Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
What the gods are supposed to be, what the priests are commissioned to say, is not a sensational secret like what those running messengers of the Gospel had to say. Nobody else except those messengers has any Gospel; nobody else has any good news; for the simple reason that nobody else has any news.Those runners gather impetus as they run. Ages afterwards they still speak as if something had just happened. Theyhave not lost the speed and momentum of messengers; they have hardly lost, as it were, the wild eyes of witnesses. In the Catholic Church, which is the cohort of the message, there are still those headlong acts of holiness that speak of something rapid and recent; a self-sacrifice that startles the world like a suicide. But it is not a suicide; it is not pessimistic; it is still as optimistic as St. Francis of the flowers and birds. It is newer in spirit than the newest schools of thought; and it is almost certainly on the eve of new triumphs. For these men serve a mother who seems to grow more beautiful as new generations rise up and call her blessed. We might sometimes fancy that the Church grows younger as the world grows old.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.
— Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action
Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.
— Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action
The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution comes from the people as they reach toward God, and a little of God is in each person and each will not forget it. This it is the revolution when slaves shake their chains and the revolution when a strong man bends toward a weaker and says, "Here, comrade, is my arm." The revolution goes on and nothing stops it; but because the people are seeking what is good, not what is wicked or powerful or cruel or rich or venal, but simply what is good--because of that the people flounder and feel along one dark road after another. The people no more all-seeing than their rulers once were; it is in intention that they differ.
— Howard Fast
in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
N-no-o, all that excitement, it wouldn't reach us,' Timosha spoke gloomily. 'We're like the sunken city of Kitezh, living at the bottom of the lake. We do not hear a thing, and the water over us is muddy and sleepy. And on the surface, way above - why, everything's in flames, and the alarms are ringing.' (“A Provincial Tale”)
— Yevgeny Zamyatin, The Dragon: Fifteen Stories
Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
Let them run ahead. Then I’ll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That’s the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!
— Derek Walcott, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
If Lenin would have had facebook, there would never have been any Russian Revolution. He would have had five followers, a handful of friends, and he'd type frantically into his own bubble. If Hitler would have had facebook, we'd still be plagued by a constant stream of conspiracy sites. Damn, how lucky are we exactly that none of these geezers had facebook and meddled about with the world instead.
— Martijn Benders
This revolution is for display purposes only.
— Banksy, Wall and Piece
With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.
— Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad
Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.
— Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography
The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by men skilled in the art of ruling
— Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution Revised and Expanded Edition
They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the government
— Crane Brinton
It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.
— Brinton Crane
The world is in A major...the earth revolves in A major, a low A.
— Thomas Ades, Thomas Adès: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and revolution – and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other.
— Guy de Maupassant, Boule de suif
Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras keeping them warm.
— Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.
— Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.
— J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.
— Brinton Crane
Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder Marxists will allow.
— Brinton Crane
In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt
— Trotsky
Almost everyone know the G3 gun. In the hands of the enemy the G3 is used to oppress and slaughter the people, but we capture a G3, it becomes an instrument for liberating the people, for punishing those who slaughter the people. It is the same gun, but the content has changed because those who use it have different aims, different objectives.
— Samora Machel, Mozambique: Sowing The Seeds Of Revolution
Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.
— Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
It is unusual,” said Cristina, “for a revolution to call for fewer rights for people, not more.
— Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
Never mind the stillness -the deep sleeps to 
— Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet
My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled; when the lords shall be no more masters than ourselves. How ill they have used us!
— John Ball
Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.
— Vladimir Lenin
Revolution?” Arno laughed. “What happened wasn’t a revolution. It was a deal. The creation of a new bunch of entrepreneurs who could be more easily manipulated by international capital.
— Harry Kalmer, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg: 'n stadsroman
They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats and .30-30s, and popular support from the masses and a workable revolutionary ideology and/or a viable myth pattern, I would have rescued them.
— Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given out by their successors taking too much credit, however heroic their actions at the time of crisis (but so often in the past hopeless).
— Bernard Crick, Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
— Chuck Klosterman, But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
— Andrei Platonov
The creation of conditions by which an entire people who have lived in exploitation and illiteracy gains access to the highest levels of knowledge and creativity is one of the most beautiful achievements of a revolution.
— Roberto Fernández Retamar, Caliban And Other Essays
I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the life that we are forced to live. Everyone deserves to lead the life they want to and not what is prescribed for them. We must be who we want to be. In this we must be happy.I am also tired of seeing black people fight to live. This is what drives my activism. I literally (as clichéd as it sounds), dream of a moment where we can be free to exist as we want to.
— Malebo Sephodi
My good friends, things cannot go on well in England, nor ever will until everything shall be in common, when there shall be neither vassal nor lord, and all distinctions levelled.
— John Ball
Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
— Jeffrey Fry
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power
— Wael Ghonim
The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.
— George Orwell, 1984
Every revolution begins with breakfast,’ I quoted as they left. ‘Is this your revolution, Jaxon?
— Samantha Shannon, The Song Rising
No revolution, no political change, is ever born from immaculate conception.
— Mike Klepper