Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.
I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.