...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an "assault upon society" and is branded as "Socialism.
Karl MarxTags: politics revolution socialism marxism
It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!
Jean-Paul SartreTags: manners children revenge goodness revolution payback good-behaviour
Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.
Paul BowlesTags: revolution
Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?
Abbie HoffmanTags: protest revolution violence propaganda
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
Karl MarxTags: liberty freedom america usa revolution freedom-of-choice civil-war marx communism slavery socialism
Suddenly Ammu hoped that it had been him that Rahel saw him in the march. She hoped it had been him that raised his flag and knotted arm in anger. She hoped that under his careful cloak of cheerfulness he housed a living breathing anger against the smug, ordered world that she raged against.
Arundhati RoyTags: rage revolution anger india
I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial
Susie BrightTags: revolution hollywood los-angeles radicalism
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.
Susan GriffinTags: politics literature revolution
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Susan GriffinTags: poetry literature revolution
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: revolution
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