Fighting Quote by Elie Wiesel

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object…

— George Orwell

“It’s useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe…

— The Invisible Committee

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

— Sharon Kay Penman

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

— Carl Safina

“Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.”

— Lauren Oliver

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

— Sinclair Lewis

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the…

— George Orwell

“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

Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

— Albert Camus

“Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.”

— Elie Wiesel

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like…

— Young-Ha Kim

“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware…

— Pascal Bruckner