If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778Quotes
There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNo one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCRebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCThe surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903