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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

—Hannah Arendt, 1970

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871
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