Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Quotes
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, 1665Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIt is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936The 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, 1970Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878