French revolution Quote by Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and…

— Kofi Annan

Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything!

— Anonymous

To tell you the truth, I see any revolution as basically a penmanship exercise. It all loops around and winds up where you started.

— Ann Reinking

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

— Joseph de Maistre

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

— Myrtle Reed

Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.

— Varun Grover

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

You see, revolution sounds like something that happens, like turning on the light switch, but actually it's moving a large obstacle, and a lot…

— Gil Scott-Heron

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

A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever…

— Mao Zedong

Revolutions go not backward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson