Quote by Ernest Becker

“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

The seed of revolution is repression.

— Woodrow Wilson

“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

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and without the…

— Assata Shakur

“The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or…

— Alan Ryan

“A government must rule by the Grace of God or by the will of the people, it must believe in authority or in the…

— Seraphim Rose

“This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always…

— Julian Fellowes

“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

“There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance…

— Various

“Revolution without revelation is tyranny.”

— Bill Minutaglio

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

— William T. Vollmann

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who…

— Paulo Freire