Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Quotes
Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944I 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, 1970Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1918Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790