Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the more they lose respect for an existing government. They will seek another direction. If there are too many people who seek a new direction, then the existing government calls upon the army and police to manage society – that is called fascism.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.

[In the French Revolution] there is much to approve and much to condemn…. An essential change was necessary for the happiness and dignity of a great people, long in a state of degradation.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter what you do, who you elect, how wonderful your article is, how eloquently you speak on CNN, none of it will make a difference. Ultimately, the only choice is a revolution that pulls off a soft regime change.

It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?