Revolutionary Goals Quotes

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

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

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

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

What the Khmer Rouge had in store was a radical agrarian revolution, one with the professed aim of completely renovating society while giving the peasants a better life, of evening the rewards and feeding the hungry, of bringing a rational and utilitarian nation-state into being.

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

Comrades, the revolution is on.

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.

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

… revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Revolutionary death is the reality and victory the dream.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

One does not make revolutions by halves

A revolution cannot survive without an enemy in front of it..

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.

Nothing harmful to the nation, the revolution, or the party must be thought of or created.

Students at Kim Il Sung University are reserve hardcore talents who will become leading officials of the revolution responsible for the important sectors and posts in the building of a powerful socialist country, the backbone in the struggle for the victory of the Juche revolution.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

… the Chinese Red Army is an armed body for carrying out the political tasks of the revolution…. the Red Army should certainly not confine itself to fighting; besides fighting to destroy the enemy's military strength, it should shoulder such important tasks as doing propaganda among the masses, organizing the masses, arming them, helping them to establish revolutionary political power and setting up Party organizations. The Red Army fights not merely for the sake of fighting but in order to conduct propaganda among the masses, organize them, arm them, and help them to establish revolutionary political power. Without these objectives, fighting loses its meaning and the Red Army loses the reason for its existence.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

A party as such, in the course of the development of a revolution, becomes identical with the revolution.