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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

—Tennessee Williams, 1944

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 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

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

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

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

—Edmund Burke, 1790
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