Revolutionary Action Quotes

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

The bourgeoisie is having recourse to the vilest crimes, bribing society's lowest elements and supplying liquor to these outcasts with the purpose of bringing on pogroms. The partisans of the bourgeoisie, especially the higher officials, bank clerks, etc., are sabotaging and organizing strikes in order to block the government's efforts to reconstruct the state on a socialistic basis. Sabotage has spread even to the food-supply organizations and millions of people are threatened with famine. Special measures must be taken to fight counter-revolution and sabotage.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

If we can’t sit at the table of democracy, then we’ll knock the fucking legs off. But before we tear it completely down, they will move to build a better one, rather than see this one destroyed.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

… revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal

The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class have a political program, and even this still requires the test of events and the approval of the masses.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

If you turn your people into bourgeois, you also turn them into pacifists.

Revolutions do not go backward.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written word but by the spoken word.

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

When young people are powerful, our Party and People's Army are powerful, and there is nothing for us to be afraid of.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

As a first step, we should recognize that the Armenian people's fight for national self-determination is first and foremost the duty and task of the Armenian people themselves. We do not believe in benevolent friends, the inevitable triumph of justice, or covertly and cleverly manipulating the superpowers. If we are to achieve national self-determination, then we ourselves, the Armenian people, will have to fight for it. We believe in the power of organized masses and in the capacity of our people to determine their own future. We believe in revolution

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