Appeals Quote by Christopher Caldwell

“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone…

— Boris Pasternak

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

“For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might…

— Orlando Figes

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

— Saul Alinsky

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

— Henry A. Kissinger

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

— Akbar Ganji

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Successful revolutionaries do occasionally end up in positions of power, but they seem more likely, on the historical record, to end up dead, courtesy…

— Anonymous