History Quotes / TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized

!!!Fiction

!!!Quotes from RealLife

->''"Well, you know, I've always thought that the PLO is the most corrupt and incompetent Third World movement I've ever seen. I mean, they've always ''presented'' themselves as revolutionaries waving around guns, Marx, etc.--but they're basically conservative nationalists, and they always ''were'' conservative nationalists. The rest was all pretense."''
-->--'''Noam Chomsky''' on Yassar Arafat, ''Understanding Power''

!!Quotes from works

->''"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy'''

-> ''"The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood."''
-->-- '''Louis Antoine de Saint-Just'''

->''"The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses."''

->''"The only thing left and right have in common is a disdain for the liberals. The conservatives are now tending toward fascism — [[HobbesWasRight crack down on dissent]], [[StateSec support your local police]], [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem disobey the Supreme Court]] — while the New Left wants to destroy the entire system. Emotionally, I’m drawn to the New Left. I would certainly go to the barricades for any movement that wants to sweep away the Pentagon, ''Time'' interviews, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and frozen French fried potatoes]]. But what is to take its place? The New Left not only have no blueprint, they don’t want a blueprint. Let’s just see what happens, they say. Well, I can tell them what will happen: first anarchy, then dictatorship. They are rich in [[Creator/ThomasPaine Tom Paines]], but they have no ThomasJefferson."''

-->--''Bloody Revolutions'' lyrics, by Crass.

->''"Take these guys in what are called the 'militias'--I mean, obviously they're not militias in the Second Amendment sense: 'militias' are things raised by states, these are just paramilitary organizations.... They don't read the "''Fortune 500''" and [[BatDeduction put together an analysis of what's really going on]] in the world, all they've had rammed to their heads is, 'The Federal Government's your enemy.' If you come to them with a political framework that could lead to some kind of productive change, it's all just another power-play as far as they're concerned--and with some justice: everything else they've been told is a crock, so why should they believe you?"''

->''"The only thing left and right have in common is a disdain for the liberals. The conservatives are now tending toward fascism — [[HobbesWasRight crack down on dissent]], [[StateSec support your local police]], [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem disobey the Supreme Court]] — while the New Left wants to destroy the entire system. Emotionally, I’m drawn to the New Left. I would certainly go to the barricades for any movement that wants to sweep away the Pentagon, ''Time'' interviews [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and frozen French fried potatoes]]. But what is to take its place? The New Left not only have no blueprint, they don’t want a blueprint. Let’s just see what happens, they say. Well, I can tell them what will happen: first anarchy, then dictatorship. They are rich in [[Creator/ThomasPaine Tom Paines]], but they have no ThomasJefferson."''

All of which said, in practice there is something grimly inevitable about riots - a toxic mixture of poverty, degradation, and summer heat that periodically and predictably combusts. 58% of those arrested in connection with the riots came from the poorest 20% of areas of England. This fact speaks volumes about the causes of the riots. And perhaps more to the point, it is not necessarily reasonable to expect people’s howl of outrage at the apparent and hopeless dead end that is their life to be orderly and productive."''

->''I raise my flag and dye my clothes\\

We're painted red to fit right in''

->''In war, ideals can be corrupted''

-->--Colonel Saul Tigh of the New Caprican Resistance to Galen Tyrol, ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''.

-->--''Luther''

->''"Take thee guys in what are called the "militias"--I mean, obviously they're not militias in the Second Amendment sense: "militias" are things raised by states, these are jusst paramilitary organizations.... They don't read the "''Fortune 500''" and [[BatDeduction put together an analysis of what's really going on]] in the world, all they've had rammed to their heads is, "The Federal Government's your enemy." If you come to them with a political framework that could lead to some kind of productive change, it's all just another power-play as far as they're concerned--and with some justice: everything else they've been told is a crock, so why should they believe you?"''

-->--'''Alexander Hamilton'''

->''In war, ideals can be corrupted''
-->-- '''Optimus Prime''', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''

->"You see, The Founders ain't nothing but weeds: Cut'em down, they'll just grow back. If you wanna get rid of the weed, [[WouldHurtAChild you got to pull it up from the root.]]"
-->--'''Daisy Fitzroy''', ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''

->''I raise my flag and dye my clothes\\
It's a revolution, I suppose\\
We're painted red to fit right in''
-->--'''Radioactive''', ''Music/ImagineDragons''

->''I raise my flags, don my clothes\\

We'll paint it red to fit right in''

->You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
->You speak of liberation and when the people rule
->Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
->Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me.

-->--GeorgeCarlin

-->-- '''Optimus Prime''', ''TransformersPrime''

-->--Colonel Saul Tigh of the New Caprican Resistance to Galen Tyrol, ''BattlestarGalactica''.

-->--''BlakesSeven''

->Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me"''

->''"You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
->''"You speak of liberation and when the people rule
->''"Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
->''"Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me"''

You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me"''