THE 67 MOST POPULAR REVOLUTIONARY PHRASES [WITH PICTURES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

Here is a list of short revolutionary phrases from great leaders such as John F. Kennedy, José Martí, Malcolm X, Che Guevera, Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson and many more.

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-Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner every day of your life.-Bob Marley.

-The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is rotten. You have to make her fall.-Che Guevara.

-A revolution is an idea taken by bayonets.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable.-John F. Kennedy.

-A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between past and future.-Fidel Castro.

-When the dictatorship is a fact, the revolution becomes a right.-Victor Hugo.

-You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.-Fred Hampton.

-It is better to die standing than live on your knees.-Emiliano Zapata.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often begin very quietly, hidden in the shadows.-Richelle Mead.

-The first duty of a man is to think for himself.-José Martí.

-The only way to support a revolution is to make yours.-Abbie Hoffman.

-You don't change things by fighting the existing reality. You change something by building a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.-Buckminster Fuller.

-Sometimes you have to take a weapon to lower a weapon.-Malcolm X.

-Poverty is the father of revolution and crime.-Aristotle.

-The sin of silence when they should have protested, makes men cowards.-Abraham Lincoln.

-Any revolution seems impossible at the beginning and after its occurrence, it was inevitable.-Bill Ayers.

28-Societies in decline are of no use for visionaries.-Anaïs Nin.

-The end could justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.-Leon Trotsky.

-The revolution never goes backwards.-William Henry Steward.

- The revolution is not something fixed of an ideology, nor something of a decade in particular. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.-Abbie Hoffman.

-There is no such thing as a non-violent revolution.-Malcolm X.

-The most heroic language in the world is the revolution.-Eugene V. Debs.

-If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That is much more powerful than rebelling from the outside.-Marie Lu.

-The revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the revolution.-Albert Einstein.

-Each generation needs a new revolution.-Thomas Jefferson.

-There is no final; Revolutions are infinite.-Yevgeny Zamyatin.

-You can't buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere.-Ursula K. Le Guin.

-Until victory always.- Ernesto Guevara.

-We have no right to think that freedom can be won without fighting.-Che Guevera.

-We have in our power to start the world again.-Thomas Paine.

-There are decades where nothing happens; And there are weeks where decades occur.-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

-Every revolution was first a thought in the mind of a man.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-The seed of the revolution is repression.-Woodrow Wilson.

-You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.-Joseph Stalin.

-Art is plagiarism or revolution.-Paul Gauguin.

-The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young man always inherits the revolution.-Huey Newton.

-It is not the insurrection of ignorance that is dangerous, but the revolt of intelligence.-James Russell Lowell.

35-Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.-Franz Kafka.

-While they fight separately, they are defeated together.-Tacit.

-A revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressive society.-Paulo Freire.

-Ask for work. If they don't give you a job, ask for bread. If they don't give you work or bread, take bread.-Emma Goldman.

-Give me time and I will give you a revolution.-Alexander McQueen.

-Revolutions begin with the word and end with the sword.-Jean Paul Marat.

-If I can not dance, I do not want to be part of your revolution.-Emma Goldman.

-Political power is simply organized power of one class to oppress another.-Karl Marx.

-Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism.-Ronald Reagan.

-It is impossible to predict the moment and progress of the revolution. It is ruled by its own mysterious wars.-Vladimir Lenin.

-The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.-Fidel Castro.

-You can imprison a revolutionary, but you can not imprison the revolution.-Huey Newton.

-The revolution is the festival of the oppressed.-Germaine Greer.

-The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will see it.-Gil Scott-Heron.

-The rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.-Thomas Jefferson.

-The worst enemy of the revolution is the bourgeois that many revolutionaries carry inside.-Mao Tse Tung.

-We fight against poverty but at the same time we fight against alienation.-Che Guevara.

-A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; Furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.-Vladimir Lenin.

-Philosophers have limited themselves to interpreting the world in different ways; what it is about is to transform it.-Karl Marx.

-Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement.-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

-You cannot make a revolution to establish democracy. You must have a democracy to have a revolution.-GK Chesterton.

-The revelation can be more dangerous than the revolution.-Vladimir Nabokov.

-The French Revolution taught us the rights of man.-Thomas Sankara.

19-Revolutions occur in dead ends.-Bertolt Brecht.

-A reform is a correction of abuses, a revolution is a transfer of power.-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton.

-The truth is always revolutionary.-Vladimir Lenin.

-Those who are inclined to compromise, can never make a revolution.-Kemal Ataturk.

-Whoever kneels before the fait accompli is incapable of facing the future.-Trotsky.

-Those who are not capable of defending old positions, will never be able to conquer the new ones.-Trotsky.

-We cannot have a revolution that does not involve and liberate women.-John Lennon.