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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. - Aristotle Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. - Aristotle, Politics (bk. VII, ch. IV) A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Speech, in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. - Italo Calvino, Il Barone Rampante (ch. 28) Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. - Albert Camus Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? [Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a l'eau-rose?] - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort, to Marmotel, who regretted the excesses of the Revolution Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. - Mary Daly Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. - John Dickinson, The Liberty Song The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. - Emma Goldman The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Franz Kafka It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. [Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.] - Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, to Louis XVI on July 14, 1789 When a revolutionary party has not the support of a majority either among the vanguard of the revolutionary class or among the rural population, there can be no question of a rising. A rising must have not only the majority, but must have the incoming revolutionary tide over the whole country, the complete moral and political bankruptcy of the old regime--and a deep-seated sense of insecurity among all these irresolute elements. - Nikolai Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. - Mignon McLaughlin There is no revolution that can change the nature of man. - Benito Mussolini I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.] - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), to Count Mole We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in. - Thomas Paine Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress. - Wendell Phillips Revolutions never go backward. - Wendell Phillips, Speech--Progress Revolutions are not made; they come. - Wendell Phillips, Speech--Public Opinion One revolution is just like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next. - Will Rogers I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. - William Henry Seward, Speech on the Irrepressible Conflict O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i) With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution. - George Bernard Shaw Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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