Revolution Quotations | Page 2

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Are you hep to what the Beatles are saying?... Dig it, they’re telling it like it is. They know what’s happening in the city; blackie is getting ready. They put the revolution to music... it’s 'Helter-Skelter.' Helter-Skelter is coming down.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real

When we were making the record, I just decided, at the last second. I thought, "This song ["Ordinary World"] makes a lot of sense, being on the album [Revolution Radio]."