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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

—Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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

—Albert Camus, 1951

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

—Jean Genet, 1983

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles. 

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC
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