Revolution Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore

“When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

— Fidel Castro

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

“No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes…

— Victor Klemperer

“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.”

— Joe Bageant

“The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of…

— Blaise Pascal

“The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution…

— Howard Fast

“The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“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

“I would confirm every act of participation and non-participation, of aggression or passivity, with which or without which the revolution took place.”

— Georgi Tenev

“This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always…

— Julian Fellowes