"In a time of universal deceit, telling
the truth is a revolutionary act"
- George Orwell
Winston Churchill
Men
stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry
off as if nothing happened.
Spinoza
Be not astonished at
new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to
be true because it is not accepted by many.
Galileo Galilei
All truths
are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover
them.
Unknown
The ability to ask
questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth.
Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no
matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or
against.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
...
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable,
must be the truth.
Confucious
Three things
cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power
of the Heart
Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the
courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper
communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of
connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us
from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful.
Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
"People should not be afraid of
their governments, governments should be afraid of their
people"
Revolutionary
Quotes
We
built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
John Wayne Allegheny
Uprising
Revolution means
democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and
degrading horrors of totalitarianism
Ronald
Reagan
Restrictions of free
thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one
un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William O.
Douglas
The
shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the
shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the
destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a
definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
The
Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the
minds and hearts of the people. This radical change in the principles, opinions,
sentiments and affections of the people was the real American
Revolution.
John
Adams
Those who make peaceful
revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F.
Kennedy
Each
time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope...build(ing)
a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F.
Kennedy
Those who suppress
freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John V.
Lindsay
Those who profess to
favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without
thunder and lightning.
Frederick
Douglass
All
civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of
revolution.
Havelock
Ellis
Man's capacity for
justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes
democracy necessary.
Reinhold
Niebuhr
This
country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember
or overthrow it.
Abraham
Lincoln
The
French Revolution of a hundred and fifty years ago gradually ushered in an age
of political equality, but the times have changed, and that by itself is not
enough today. The boundaries of democracy have to be widened now so as to
include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we
are all passing.
Jawaharlal
Nehru
If
our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it,
the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise
security to all.
Will
Durant
Any
doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgement and for action helps
create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
John
Dewey
I
call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers,
which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or
hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which
receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
William Ellery
Channing
A
society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Bertrand de
Jouvenel
All
the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves
far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable
causes of future experience.
William
James
A
regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement;
usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a
revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that
have become vacant.
Walter
Lippman
Government is, or ought
to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or
community; whenever any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to
these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, unalienable,
indefeasible right, to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be
judged most conducive to the public Weal.
George
Mason
You
can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a
democracy in order to have a revolution.
G.K.
Chesterton
Here
in America we a descended in blood and
in spirit from revolutionists and rebels- men and women who dared to dissent
from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with
disloyal subversion.
Dwight
Eisenhower
There is no substitute
for a militant freedom.
Calvin
Coolidge
He
who would be free must strike the first blow.
Frederick
Douglass
Those who give the
first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of
public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only
beats the water for another's net.
Michel De
Montaigne
There is a kind of
revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastes as well as the
fortunes of the world.
La
Rochefoucauld
The
art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established
customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.
Blaise
Pascal
Whenever the
legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to
reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state
of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience,
and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against
force and violence.
John
Locke
Everything I see about
me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not
have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will
strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young
are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
Voltaire
The
most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that
there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have
placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive
them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break
down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all
share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.
John
Adams
It
is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a
revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of
their virtue and good sense.
John
Adams
To
dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.
Antoine
Saint-Just
An
oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their
fetters.
Henry
Clay
Wherever a man comes,
there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Let
the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have
nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all
countries, unite!
Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
All
men recognize the right of revolution: that is, the right to refuse allegiance
to, or to resist, the government when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great
and unendurable.
Henry David
Thoreau
Insurgents are like
conquerors: they must go forward. The moment they are stopped they are lost.
Wellington
Revolutions are not
made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of
the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
Wendell
Phillips
Revolutions never go
backwards.
William Henry
Steward
The
French revolution was a machine invented and constructed for the purpose of
manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and
the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own
inventors, and set itself on fire.
C.C.
Colton
Great revolutions,
whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded
with precipitation.
Benjamin
Disraeli
A
reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.
E.G.
Bulwer-Lytton
Whenever the ends of
government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all
other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of a right ought to
reform the old, or establish a new government; the doctrine of non-resistance
against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the
good and happiness of mankind.
Declaration of Rights,
Maryland
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.
M.A.
Bakunin
Revolutions are not
made by men in spectacles.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
Revolutions are not
made with rosewater.
E.G.
Bulwer-Lytton
It
is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of
intelligence.
James Russell
Lowell
The
right to revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their
government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of the
oppression, if they are strong enough, either by withdrawal from it, or by
overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.
U.S.
Grant
Revolutions can no
longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a
minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a
revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.
Jean
Jaures
One
of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in
the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful
interest in politics.
Nikolai
Lenin
It
is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by
its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.
Nikolai
Lenin
We
must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the
consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the
revolution.
Plutarco
Calles
Those who are inclined
to compromise can never make a revolution.
Kemal
Ataturk
He
that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the
Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
Samuel
Johnson
If
there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which
America is now engaged.
Thomas
Paine
I
desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would
restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in
America.
John
Wesley
If I
were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my
country I never would lay down my arms,- never! never! never!
William
Pitt
The
American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It
was a conservative revolution.
William E.
Gladstone
Who
draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
James
Howell
Rebellion to tyrants is
obedience to God.
Thomas
Jefferson
My
call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must
go well armed.
Walt
Whitman
Disobedience in the
eyes of any one who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through
disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through
rebellion.
Oscar
Wilde
Disobedience, the
rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect,
the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard
Shaw
Tyranny brings
ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the
class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes
every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are
enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and
triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.
Jonathan
Mayhew
No
government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Samuel
Johnson
Some
boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to
a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in
publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
John
Hancock
The
evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John
Hay
It
is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power
to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose
and put him to death.
John
Milton
If a
sovereign oppresses his people to a degree they will rise and cut off his head.
There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny that will keep us safe under
every form of government.
Samuel
Johnson
'Twixt kings and
tyrants there's this difference known;/ Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants
their own.
Robert
Herrick
The
mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations
have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.
Polybius
The
common people suffer when the powerful disagree.
Phaedrus
Do
not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they
speak more safely.
Francis
Bacon
Do
not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by
enlightening them.
Thomas
Jefferson
The
people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas
Jefferson
I am
not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence
for continued freedom.
Thomas
Jefferson
The
welfare of the people is the supreme law.
Motto of Missouri
In
your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward
boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a
dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public
responsibility.
George Bernard
Shaw
It
is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in
order.
Thomas
Jefferson
Arbitrary rule has its
basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness
of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering
power.
Friedrich
Hatzel
Despotism has forever
had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government,
has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past history is the
record, not of the success of republics, but of their failure.
Calvin
Coolidge
It
violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning
classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own
arbitrary will and advantage, without any regard to the human dignity of the
workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common
good.
Pope Pius
XI
The
foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man,
the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and
particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.
Thomas
Jefferson
When
the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and
for each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most
indispensable of duties.
Marquis De
Lafayette
Revolution is the larva
of civilization.
Victor
Hugo
General rebellions and
revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are
always provoked.
Edmund
Burke
It
is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men
become turbulent and dangerous.
James Russell
Lowell
Revolutions are like
the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
Napoleon
When
all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made
perfect.
Thomas
Paine
Caesar had his Brutus,
Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third may profit by their
example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick
Henry
None
but tyrants have any business to be afraid.
Hardouin de
Perefixe
He
who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
Claudian
Tyrants have not yet
discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Colton
There is something
about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or
earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
Daniel
Webster
Anarchy is the sure
consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be
protected by them.
John
Milton
One
sharp, stern struggle, and the slaves of centuries are free.
George
Massey
The
bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
Jean Jacques
Rousseau
Every generation must
wage a new war for freedom against new forces which seek through new devices to
enslave mankind.
Progressive Party
Platform
The
people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund
Burke
Tyrants are always
assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
E.M.
Cioran
There is nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of
things.
