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
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state.
—Albert Camus, 1951In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776