The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Quotes
There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
—Thomas Paine, 1778The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842If not us, who? If not now, when?
—Czech slogan, 1989