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

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

—Wendell Phillips, 1859

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Erich Fromm, 1941

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

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

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983

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

—Hannah Arendt, 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 are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989
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