Able Quote by John Lennon

Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a…

— Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially…

— Vilfredo Pareto

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern…

— Tariq Ali

“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given…

— Bernard Crick

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it…

— Hannah Arendt

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

— Kwame Nkrumah

It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing…

— Thomas Paine

“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

“Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the…

— Julianna Baggott

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most…

— Alexis de Tocqueville