Your Favorite Revolutionary Quotes?

[*Hippie*]

I was thinking of printing out some great and inspiring revolutionary quotes and putting them in my journal for inspiration. What are some of your favorites?
Thanks :)

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[The Z-Man]

Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
-Che

My favorite.

[More Fire for the People]

"Can the power of a hundred be greater than the power of a thousand? It can. And it does, when the hundred is organized." - Lenin
This is a really good quote about how an organized proletarian movement can overcome the capitalist forces.


"One man with a gun can control 100 without one." - Lenin
Simply the most pragmatic words I have ever heard.


"Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen." - Trotsky
Illuminates the fact that socialism cannot survive without democracy.


"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end." - Trotsky
Simply poetic, doesn't speak much beyond common sense though.


"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them." - Mao Tse-Tung
Another good quote about organization.


"We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force." - Ernesto Guevara
The need for deeds not talk.

[bighead631]

These are some of my FAvorites :)

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin


To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong


Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx

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

[Pawn Power]

of each according to his ability, to each according to his need- marx

duh

[The Z-Man]

Oh and I forgot.

"The Revolutionary is a Doomed Man"

From The Revolutionary Catechism (http://www.spunk.org/library/places/russia/sp000116.txt) by Nechayev.
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[Clarksist]

"Let the world change you, and you can change the world." - Che

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of heartless conditions, and the soul of a soulless world. Relgion is opium for the masses." - Marx

"Revolution is not a theory." - Don't know, just thought of it

[Hiero]

Only he is a marxist who extends the recognition of the class strugle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proleteriat-Lenin

[RedAnarchist]

I dont have a prticular favourite - the revolutionaries of history always seem so verbose and articulate.

[Forward Union]

"Socialists accuse me of being an Anarchist, Guilty. Anarchists accuse me of being a Socialist, Guilty. Revolutionaries accuse me of being a reformist, guilty. Reformists accuse me of being revolutionary, guilty" - Subcomandanté K Marcos

"They out gun us, but ideas are stronger than arms. They can kill us if they want, every last one of us, but they cannot kill our ideas. We defy them even in death, and they fear us for it. Let them do their worst"

"When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands now? Who owns them?" - Chief Sitting Bull (see sig)

[The Z-Man]

And a few more.

"You can kill the protester, you can't kill the protest"
-Anti-Flag

"It has to start somewhere
It has to start sometime
What better place than here
What better time than now
All hell can't stop us now"
-RATM

"Freedom"

"Political power grows out the barrel of a gun."
-Mao

Edit:

"The revolution is not just an apple that will fall when it is ripe. We must make it fall."
-Che

[rebelafrika]

"...and until THAT day...
the African continent, will not know peace...
WE Africans will FIGHT...we find it neccessary...
and WE KNOW WE SHALL WIN...
as we are CONFIDENT...
in the victory...
of "good" over "evil" "--Bob Marley (from the song "WAR")

[turkishXstyle]

When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.
Stalin ;)

[Enragé]

from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
-Karl Marx

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
-Henry David Thoreau

In a word, we reject all legislation, all authority, and all privileged, licensed, official, and legal influence.
-Mikhail Bakunin

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.
- Karl Marx

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.
-Noam Chomsky

[Enragé]

"You can kill the protester, you can't kill the protest"
-Anti-Flag


haha yeah :D

their 2+2 does not equal 4, their 2+2 equals whatever thet want us to die for!
-Anti-Flag

we dont need time to talk over a solution
we know what we need
WE NEED A FUCKING REVOLUTION!
-Anti-Flag

[workersunity]

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.
-From Zur Judenfrage, 1844


"What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
-marx

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."


there are too many to put here

[Super Mario Conspiracy]

I actually like:

"You can't fight ideas with bullets."

...from the PC game Deus Ex.

[Hiero]

Some peopl have a confusion over Revolutionaries and punk rockers.

[The Z-Man]

Originally posted by [email protected] 22 2005, 12:21 AM
Some peopl have a confusion over Revolutionaries and punk rockers.
What about punk rockers who speak of revolution?

[Clarksist]

Originally posted by The Z-Man+Jun 22 2005, 12:49 AM--> (The Z-Man @ Jun 22 2005, 12:49 AM)
[email protected] 22 2005, 12:21 AM
Some peopl have a confusion over Revolutionaries and punk rockers.
What about punk rockers who speak of revolution? [/b]
Punk rockers can be revolutionary. Metallers too.

Some times it takes the arts to punctuate revolutionary points, as it adds the aesthetic of the artform.

Art can be helpful to the revolution.

[Hiero]

There is more content in the quotes of professional revolutionaries then musicians.

Although what they say is good and maybe true, it isn't as credible as someone who has done alot of work and research.

[Enragé]

true, but who cares. As long its a good quote.

[d-e-f-i-a-n-c-e]

'Fuck You I Wont Do What You Tell Me' RATM....best ever....dont say that to your parents though..they'll just punish you...i got grounded and i got a huge lecture about why not to use swear words...so...lol

[CrazyModerate]

"But what I want to remind you, You can lock up a mouse or a man, but you cannot lock up an idea" - Tommy Douglas, at the end of his Mouseland speech.

[Monika]

these are some of my fav. quotes...
"Eventually, I realized that I had two choices. I could struggle for stupid stuff- for some trinkets and creature comforts- or I could make a better life for myself, my children, and their children. You either work for yourself and your people or you work for your oppressor."
~Assata Shakur

"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world, declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

[silentprotest]

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on that of the best shots.
Voltaire

[Entrails Konfetti]

"There are two sides of the coin,one is the beauty of the land,the other side is the exploitation of the workers in the land"- Ernesto Che Guevara

thats one I could think off of the top of my head.

[*Hippie*]

Thanks for all those great quotes! ;)

"You either work for yourself and your people or you work for your oppressor."

That's a great one and so true!

[Batman]

"If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!" - James Connolly



"I am, even after all the torture, amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever." - Bobby Sands


"Let the fight go on."
Patsy O'Hara, hungerstriker, INLA POW


"My alliegence is to the working class"
Seamus Costello



"Life springs from death, and from the graves of Patriot Men and Women spring Living Nations."
Padraic Pearse



Our demands most moderate are –
We only want the earth!

James Connolly



Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top; a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom.
-Bernadette Devlin McAliskey



"We cannot conceive of a free Ireland with a subject working class; we cannot conceive of a subject Ireland with a free working class. But we can conceive of a free Ireland with a working class guaranteed the power of freely and peacefully working out its own salvation." - James Connolly



Thats a lot of fucking quites- Me :blink:

[The Z-Man]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 08:35 PM
When we hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.
Stalin ;)
Thats a good one, but I'm not a fan of Stalin. :unsure: