Democracy Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

— Joshua Wong

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

— William Powell

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

— George Orwell

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy on a supranational level is simply impossible. In order to have democracy, there needs to be a nation.

— Geert Wilders

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

— Maximilien Robespierre

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

— Boots Riley

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

— Vladimir Lenin

If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by…

— Sun Yat-sen

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

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

Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned…

— Wendell Phillips