Revolutions And Revolutionaries

(248 votes)   In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(231 votes)   The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(211 votes)   Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Mariano Azuela
1873-1952, Mexican Novelist

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(164 votes)   You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(128 votes)   A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(119 votes)   One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(117 votes)   A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State

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(116 votes)   You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''

Tennessee Williams
1914-1983, American Dramatist

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(115 votes)   The word ''revolution'' itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the ''revolution'' of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the ''revolving door'' of a politics which has ''liberated'' women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

Adrienne Rich
1929-, American Poet

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(110 votes)   Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(104 votes)   When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Edward F. Halifax
1881-1959, British Conservative Statesman

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(103 votes)   The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

Joseph Conrad
1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist

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(96 votes)   Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

John Dickinson

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(89 votes)   The dead have been awakened -- shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants -- shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe -- and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(88 votes)   If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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