To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke…

Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…

— Tony Benn

“It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.”

— Steve Merrick

Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger,…

— Shimon Peres

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

— Clare Short

Ultimately, Boris Johnson and the political and financial support behind his Brexit project are probably the biggest threat to both British democracy and the…

— Clive Lewis

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

— Dale Jamieson

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

— Chokwe Lumumba

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

— Kevin O'Higgins

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

— Lillian Hellman

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

— Ruby Dee

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

— Beryl Bender Birch

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

— Akbar Ganji

In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't…

— Jonah Goldberg