Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Quotes
All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BCI have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844