Jeri Laber Quotes

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

All at present is quiet in Paris. There are Socialist risings in many parts of the country, but all these will do the President [coup leader Louis Napoleon] good, and strengthen his hands, for even the people who have been treated with indignity will pardon him if their châteaux are saved from an infuriated and brutal peasantry.

Scarcely a year now passes without an insurrection in some of their [China’s] provinces. It is true they are soon suppressed, but their frequency is a strong symptom of the fever within.

The color revolution virus affects only weak countries. Belarus does not have any breeding ground for this.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the Shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the Shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.