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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

—Jean Genet, 1983

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

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

—Czech slogan, 1989

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

—Pope Leo XIII, 1885

Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.

—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

—Henry Clay, 1842

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844