"The right of revolt belongs to any people who can save its soul in no other way. The revolution will be no better and no more truthful and no more populist and no more attractive than those who brought it into being." the mark of a beast, whether its insignia is the military or the movement. "The mark of inhuman treatment of humans is. When this short brilliant phase ended, what came next? The most boring society in history." Workers, peasants, soldiers were in a state of excitement and poetry.
In the early days the revolution was a work of inspiration. When Trotsky spoke of permanent revolution he really meant permanent interest.
The Russian revolution promised mankind a permanently interesting life. In 1917, that boring Lenin who wrote so many boring pamphlets and letters on organizational questions was, briefly, all passion, all radiant interest. "Boredom has more to do with modern political revolution than justice has. "It is an illusion to think you can have a revolution without prisons." "You say you want a revolution,/Well you know,/We all want to change the world." That doesn't mean, however, that these things must also become crystallized and permanent." "In the kind of disintegrated atmosphere that arises after a revolution, any idea can materialize and any excess can happen. "Revolutions aren't wedding invitations, you know, and they're not suited for impatient people." "Do you know of any revolution, even a scientific one, that has taken place without bloodshed? No despot is ever going to give up his throne because you ask him to give it up, or because you beg him to go away. They are long preparing in the depth of the obscure the masses-then they break out suddenly, not seldom on apparently slight occasion.” They come automatically, in a measure the power of things, the current of and facts, produces them. "Revolutions are not made either by individuals or by secret societies. But all the good that comes out of a violent revolution comes in spite of the violence." There have been lots of revolutions-people throwing over the government and taking other people's property. "Revolution to me would mean people recognizing the sanctity of life, and that's revolution that has never happened.
"Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles." "Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior." "If we do not soon bestir ourselves for a bloody revolution, we cannot leave anything to our children but poverty and slavery." "When you have a revolution cooking on the stove make sure you have a revolutionist for a chef." Perhaps we will discover that we must remain in a constant state of revolution." To find out what kind of society will come out of this destruction, we must go through the experience of the revolution. "We do not know what kind of society we would replace this one with, but this one must be destroyed. "Revolutionary activity without serious study, planning and thought has a tendency to become counterrevolutionary." "Revolutionaries should all be shot before they shoot the unrevolutionaries." "Revolution that, like Saturn, devours its own children has deviated from its proper path." A price must be set on tyranny and the tyrants must pay the price." "History shows that freedom is born in pain. "A revolution is not a spectacle! There are no spectators! Everyone participates whether they know it or not." "During revolutions green plants don't get enough water." The cycle goes on and on, and along the way the values of humanism and social justice the rebels champion take shape and change and are slowly implemented in the minds of all men even as their advocates falter and succumb to the materialistic decadence of the prevailing status quo." "History is like a relay race of revolutions the torch of idealism is carried by one group of revolutionaries until it too becomes an establishment, and then the torch is snatched up and carried on the next leg of the race by a new generation of revolutionaries. "The firebrand revolutionary freedom fighter is the first to destroy the rights and even the lives of the next generation of rebels." "In the abstract theory of our government the obedience of the citizen is not due to an unconstitutional law: he may lawfully resist its execution." "It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquiries into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people, of their virtue and good sense."
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