Revolutions and Revolutionaries Quotes

47 quotations about Revolutions and Revolutionaries

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Revolutions never go backward.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

All revolutions devour their own children.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

If not us, who? If not now, when?

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

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