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Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957

If not us, who? If not now, when?

—Czech slogan, 1989

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

—Erich Fromm, 1941

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 63 BC

To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.

—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871

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

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933
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