Revolution Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“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

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

— Anonymous

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“A revolution is always distinguished by impoliteness, probably because the ruling classes did not take the trouble in good season to teach the people…

— Leon Trotsky

“The revolution has to be customised”

— Scott Rosenberg

“And Mr Verloc, temparamentally identical with his associates, drew fine distinctions in his mind on the strenght of insignificant differences. He drew them with…

— Joseph Conrad

“Above all, the revolutionary group must divest itself of the forms of power—statutes, hierarchies, property, prescribed opinions, fetishes, paraphernalia, official etiquette—and of the subtlest…

— Murray Bookchin

“Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully,…

— Rahul Pandita

Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.

— Ray Davies

“There are 2 types of revolutionaries: those bred through a rich education, and those bred through a poor education. But there is truly only…

— Criss Jami

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes…

— Sergey Nechayev

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

— George Bernard Shaw