“Violence is not more adequate to describe the phenomenon of revolution as change; only where change occurs in the sense of a new beginning, where violence is used to constitute an altogether different form of government to bring about the formation of a new body politic… we can speak of revolution”
- Hannah Arendt, On Revolution
“Modernizing (revolutionary) societies – not to the signs of violence but to the signs of change”
- Ferdinand Marcos, Today’s Revolution: Democracy
>>> But if we put these in our context today, it is possible that violence may serve as he premise of change. Or maybe this:
“Jacobin type of revolution – violence is not only necessary, it is the revolution. For it’s purpose is to liquidify the oligarchs, economic imperialists, political authority and replace by the Proletariat.”
Other Quotes:
“The revolution does not begin with the attack of a powerful new force upon the state. It begins simply with a sudden recognition by almost all the passive and active membership that the state no longer exists…”
- George S. Pettee, The Process of Revolution
“The charge is bound to be correct, since no polity has ever been completely democratized. Even today what one ordinarily calls democracies areas we all know, a very long way from being fully democratized political system.”
- Prof. Robert A. Dahl, After the Revolution
“Democracy is cannot be conceived in political terms alone but in social and economic terms as well.”
“In an oppressive, undemocratic society, a Jacobin revolution is justified, even inevitable.”
-Ferdinand Marcos, Today’s Revolution: Democracy
“Consider possessions as common to all, share without hesitation when others are in need.”
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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