Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Quotes
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885All 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, 1849Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957The 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, 1970Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790