Violent Revolution Quotes

• I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence will not really change anything: at most it will only transfer power from one set of bull-headed authorities to another.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Differences

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• The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Revolution, Impossible, Violent

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• There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, Heart, Frustration

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

  Michael Hardt

  Doe, Pharaohs, Revolution

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• A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Justice, Diversity, Peaceful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.40, New Directions Publishing

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• Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

  Petra Kelly

  Mean, Revolution, Violent

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press

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• The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.

  Hugo Chavez

  Path, Revolution, Violent

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• We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

  James Lee Burke

  Country, War, People

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

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• I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

  Gore Vidal

  Real, Opposites, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Revolution, Rebellion, Creation

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• In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face the same unchanged conditions, the same squalor and deprivation-the only difference being that his bitterness would be even more intense, his disenchantment even more abject. Thus, in purely practical as well as moral terms, the American Negro has no rational alternative to nonviolence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Differences, Revolution, Events

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
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  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

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• I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice –are we, in John Adams’ phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  Al Gore

  Law, Choices, Decision

  "Gore Sees No Reason to Run" by Patrick Healy, thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com. May 25, 2007.

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• I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  Harold H. Greene

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

  Philip Yancey

  Kingdoms, Revolution, Violent

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Ideas, India, Revolution

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hate, Revolution, Mao

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• Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

  Adam Kokesh

  4th Of July, Government, Years

  Adam Kokesh Calls For 'New American Revolution' by Paul Joseph Watson, www.infowars.com. May 24, 2013.

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• The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

  William James

  Order, Space, Biographies

  William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.50, William James

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• I think acceptance of human rights is going to progress from one day to the next. I don't think there's going to be any violent revolution about the whole thing anywhere. Of course, it looks like it every once in a while. You hear about it on television and in newspapers: riots here and there. But that is a passing phase.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Acceptance, Thinking, Rights

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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