First place Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by…

— 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

“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

“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

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

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

“There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.”

— Víctor Hugo

“When you destroyed autocratic regimes, you caused more death and suffering than the regime itself, and often ended up with something worse. Your violent…

— Neal Asher

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means.”

— Walter Wink