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Revolution Quotes by Albert Camus
- All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
- Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and…
- Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
- Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
- More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and…
- Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
- Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
- Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly
More Revolution Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams