Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Quotes
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878No 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, 1851All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849