It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Read Summary
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. Read Summary
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. Read Summary
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Read Summary
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. Read Summary
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. Read Summary
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. Read Summary
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Read Summary
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. Read Summary
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Read Summary
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. Read Summary
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. Read Summary
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Read Summary
A revolution is not a bed of roses. Read Summary
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Read Summary
At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.' Read Summary
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world. Read Summary