“Revolution is not a one time event.”
“These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.”
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
“Revolutions that really effect lasting change happen thoughtfully in peacetime.”
“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”
“I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
“Ask for work. If they don t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
“You said, They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people. What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
“But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”