Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Quotes
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957The 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, 1970Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790