First place Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“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

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the…

— Crane Brinton

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

— Paul Watson

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

“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

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his…

— Mike Tyson

“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

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

— Wallace Stevens

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith