A revolution does the work of a century in two days, and undoes in two
years five centuries' achievement.
-Paul Valery
A revolution is coming- a revolution which will be peaceful if we are
wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are
fortunate enough- But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or
not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
-Robert
F. Kennedy
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the
plague it promised to heal.
-Daniel Berrigan
A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility;
if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
-Murray
Kempton
After a revolution, of course, the successful revolutionists always try
to convince doubters that they have achieved great things, and usually
they hang any man who denies it.
-H.L. Mencken
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a
volcano of revolution.
-Havelock Ellis
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The
violence of a revolution is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
-John
Kenneth Galbraith
And so you ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a
time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
-Abby
Hoffman
Any revolution that goes on for too long is by definition a failure. The
idea is to become the establishment.
-Linus Torvalds
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into
greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas.
-Alfred
North Whitehead
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new
bureaucracy.
-Franz Kafka
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it
has deposed.
-Barbara Tuchman
He who undertakes to guide men must never lose sight of the fact that
they are malicious monkeys.... The folly of the revolution was in aiming
to establish virtue on the earth. When you want to make men good and
wise, free, moderate, generous, you are led inevitably to the desire of
killing them all.
-Anatole France
If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.
-Emma Goldman
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of
Independence, it would have been worthwhile.
-Samuel Eliot Morison
In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the
end.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent
revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of
violence to change anything for the better.
-Daniel Berrigan
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution.
-Emma
Goldman
Nothing is more American than revolution.
-Jerry Rubin
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution
and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens
puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the
government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by
letting home 'owners' deduct mortgage interest payments.
-Florence
King
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-Aristotle
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
-Vladimir Nabokov
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
-Tom
Stoppard
Revolution is but thought carried into action.
-Emma Goldman
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
-Germaine Greer
'Revolution' today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes
rather dull.
-Wyndham Lewis
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
-Tennessee
Williams
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