Affected Quote by John Stuart Mill

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

— Che Guevara

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set…

— Thomas Kuhn

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack…

— Blaise Pascal

I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if…

— Gore Vidal

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

“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

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

— Paul Watson

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

— Theodore Roosevelt

“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

“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

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

— Millard Fillmore

“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