Bureaucracy Quote by Bernard Crick

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

“Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the…

— Julianna Baggott

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual…

— Francesco Guicciardini

“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

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Walter Wink

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set…

— Thomas Kuhn

“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed…

— S.A. Smith

“Revolutions are rarely if ever majoritarian but instead are usually propelled by a small group that is disciplined and fanatical to which a passive…

— Frederic C. Rich