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The 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, 1961

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.

—James Howell, 1659

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

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

—Havelock Ellis, 1921
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