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Revolutions are always verbose.

—Leon Trotsky, 1933

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. 

—Pierre Boulez, 1989

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

—Havelock Ellis, 1921

And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

—Samuel Johnson, 1791

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1776

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

—Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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

Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871

Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.

—Italo Calvino, 1957
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