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
Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790