Top 40 Revolution Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Revolution Quotes from famous people such as Warren G. Harding, C. Wright Mills, Emma Goldman, Hannah Arendt, Vitalik Buterin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
Every revolution has its counterrevolution – that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt
The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.
Vitalik Buterin
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Bill Ayers
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to empower individuals and communities, as it creates new opportunities for economic, social, and personal development. But it also could lead to the marginalization of some groups, exacerbate inequality, create new security risks, and undermine human relationships.
Klaus Schwab
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle’s history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
H. W. Brands
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
Karl Marx
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Vladimir Lenin
Every smart person that I admire in the world, and those I semi-fear, is focused on this concept of crypto for a reason. They understand that this is the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution: steam engine, electricity, then the microchip – blockchain and crypto is the fourth.
Brock Pierce
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg Buchner
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
Che Guevara
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand
Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.
Alexander De Croo
The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.
William Mougayar
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Madeleine Albright
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey Newton
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
Fred Hampton
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson
Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strif

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.
Bhagat Singh
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Raoul Vaneigem
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that’s not?
Ken Liu
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.
Alexis Ohanian
Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.
N. Chandrababu Naidu