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Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

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, 1665

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC

All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

—Victor Hugo, 1862

The 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, 1970

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

—Leo Tolstoy, 1893

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

—Henry Clay, 1842

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903