America Quote by Arnold Beichman

“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

“Since 1789, despite numerous wars, revolutions and upheavals, humans have not managed to conceive of any new value.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

— Andre Malraux

“It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“When you destroyed autocratic regimes, you caused more death and suffering than the regime itself, and often ended up with something worse. Your violent…

— Neal Asher

“The Revolution has shown us that the advantages and opinion of society, which I thought everything, are really nothing, and always have been nothing.…

— James Tipton

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.”

— Walter Wink

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but…

— Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly treated, but…

— Victor Hugo

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”

— George Monbiot

“The equality prescribed by the Revolution is simply the weak man's revenge upon the strong; it's just what we saw in the past, but…

— Marquis de Sade