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Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

If not us, who? If not now, when?

—Czech slogan, 1989

An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.

—Henry Clay, 1842

I 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, 1983

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

—Leo Tolstoy, 1893

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790
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