People are born as revolutionaries. The accident of life…

“For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might…

— Orlando Figes

“This policy, viewed positively by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as a way to shift the focus outside of Europe, was backed by Jules…

— Charles River Editors

“Countries measured their success by the size of their territory, the increase in their population and the growth of their GDP – not by…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“[Otto von Bismarck] only considered the interests of his own country - always the worst offense that a statesman can commit in the eyes…

— A.J.P. Taylor

“Otto von Bismarck quipped, "Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”

— Cory Doctorow

“A Bavarian is mixture between an Austrian and a human being." -Otto von Bismarck  ”

— Diana Mauer

“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support some variant…

— Guy Standing

[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

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

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Beryl Bender Birch

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

— Kevin O'Higgins

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

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

— Chokwe Lumumba