All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951Quotes
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829