Black-september Quote by Red Army Faction

“Every previous revolutionary movement in human history has made the same basic mistake. They’ve all seen power as a static apparatus, as a structure.…

— Richard K. Morgan

“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it,…

— Germaine Greer

“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone…

— Boris Pasternak

“All revolutions are impossible till they happen, then they become inevitable.”

— Randy Bartlett

“It’s important to recognize that a revolution won’t be launched by consensus.”

— Becky Bond

“Revolutionists are accused of sowing fear abroad. Every barricade seems a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their ulterior motive is feared,…

— Victor Hugo

“Well, I ask the impartial reader, is it not childishness, and more than that, dangerous childishness? Is it not inevitable that we shall have…

— Frédéric Bastiat

“One does not wait for the "ripe" objective circumstances to make a revolution, circumstances become "ripe" through the political struggle itself.”

— Slavoj Žižek

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and…

— Thomas Paine

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

— Charles de Gaulle