John Edgar Wideman Quotes

Revolutions are not easy.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

Let the revolution begin.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

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

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

I was born in revolution.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

There's a battle outside raging It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls for the times they are a-changing.

In politics experiments mean revolutions.

Only force would produce social change.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Revolution begins with one step

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.