Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Quotes
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCDisobedience, 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, 1891Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903There 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, 1790To 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, 1933Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962