Revolution Quotes - Page 29

• The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.

  George III

  Triumph, Retreat, Casts

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• People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Reality, People, Goal

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• We are determined to listen to nothing from the illegal congress.

  George III

  Determined, Illegal, Congress

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• For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Fate, Subtle

  "Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings".

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• If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Army, America, Six Months

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• I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

  George Washington

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

  George Washington

  Army, Usual, Pay

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• To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

  George Washington

  Taken, Winter, Glasses

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• Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Liberty, Slavery, May

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• Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

  Benjamin Franklin

  England, Remember, Slave

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• That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

  George Mason

  Tyrants, People, Gentleman

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• The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Abolition Of Slavery, Bears, Slavery

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• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  George Washington

  Moving, Government, Half

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1784). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.306

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Future, Vision

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• You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Looks, Facts, Conservative

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• It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

  Neil Young

  Country, Couple, Crazy

  "'Will I be deported?'". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. May 2003.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Language, Social

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• The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

  Rob Brown

  Ears, Happens

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• Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

  Pete Seeger

  May, Red, Incitement

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  Navid Negahban

  War, Impact, Iran

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• America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

  Ron Paul

  Government, America, Long

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• Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, War, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.

  Mehdi Karroubi

  Islamic, Faithful, Khomeini

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• Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.

  Jerzy Buzek

  Europe, Velvet, Figures

  "Quotes on the death of Vaclav Havel". The Guardian, December 18, 2011.

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• Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

  Mark Carney

  Children, Long, Essentials

  "Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish" by Angela Monaghan, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2014.

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