Tony Fadell Quotes

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

There is no example in history of a revolutionary movement involving such gigantic masses being so bloodless.

Tecumseh is one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

Among other things the Russian experiment, no less than the experience of Socialist parties in Western Europe which have got some degree of power, shows clearly that not even the most cataclysmic revolution can create overnight those habits of mind and that social machinery necessary to the successful functioning of a new social order.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The capitalist world could not help giving birth to the socialist, but now the socialist world should not seek to destroy by force the ground from which it grew. Under the present conditions this would be tantamount to the suicide of mankind. Socialism should ennoble that ground by its example and other indirect forms of pressure and then merge with it.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day — in some unknown serra — some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

In the final account, the fate of our republic will depend upon whether the masses of the peasantry will go hand in hand with the working class

Revolutions, when they erupt, appear to the elites and the establishment to be sudden and unexpected. This is because the real work of revolutionary ferment and consciousness is unseen by the mainstream society, noticed only after it has largely been completed.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

The great leaders called the working class first whenever difficult and gigantic tasks arose for the revolution, and ushered in fresh heydays of the revolution by relying on them.

This is the age of disruption.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.