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
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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, 1918Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962