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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

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

—Victor Hugo, 1862

All revolutions devour their own children.

—Ernst Röhm, 1933

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

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

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.

—Oscar Wilde, 1891

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776
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