Culture Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Revolution is not the uprising against pre-existing order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.”

— Paul Brannigan

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn

“All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That…

— Julio Cortázar

“Above all, the revolutionary group must divest itself of the forms of power—statutes, hierarchies, property, prescribed opinions, fetishes, paraphernalia, official etiquette—and of the subtlest…

— Murray Bookchin

“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The old order changes yielding place to new.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Liberated from Saturn, from the order that for years had kept us in line, our narrative organized and mindful of the conventions of story.…

— Salvador Plascencia

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who…

— Paulo Freire

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should…

— John Lennon

“Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.”

— Timothy Snyder