Revolution Quotes

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In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if… — William Ralph Inge
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle
All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. — Thomas Carlyle
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for… — Eric Hoffer
Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up. — Aristotle
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism. — Louis Kronenberger
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. — Woodrow Wilson
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so… — Jonas Salk
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid… — Rick Perry
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! — Fidel Castro
I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution. — Ram Dass
The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness. — Bryant H. McGill
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant

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