Mark Twain Quotes

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

A nation can only regenerate itself in a bath of blood.

A revolution is an idea that has found bayonets.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

If a revolution is to succeed, sometimes you must kill.

The only way a revolution can triumph is through the force of arms.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

Grasp Revolution

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

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