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Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.

—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BC

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

All 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

There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1665

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

—Leo Tolstoy, 1893

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933
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