Nellie McClung Quotes

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

The reign of terror is not a revolution: it is only a necessary instrument in a determined phase of the revolution.

They are as blind to some of the tendencies of the time as the French Noblese was before the French Revolution.

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

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.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

Revolutions never go backward.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.