It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Quotes
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCThe only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989All 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, 1977The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776