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Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

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

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.

—Albert Camus, 1951

To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.

—Pope Leo XIII, 1885

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

—Thomas Paine, 1778

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

—François Guizot, 1830

Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC

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

No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

—George Sand, 1851
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