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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

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

—Erich Fromm, 1941

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

—Leo Tolstoy, 1893

In 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, 1864

Revolutions never go backward.

—Thomas Skidmore, 1829

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

—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

—Jean Genet, 1983

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

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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