Expectations Quote by Siri Hustvedt

“It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of…

— Brinton Crane

“Anyone can overthrow a government. It’s ruling that’s hard.”

— Elan Mastai

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”

— victor hugo

“Revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are worst, but in places where expectations are most unmet.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Revolutions are, by definition, unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts. Why”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Randy Bartlett

“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt”

— Trotsky

“The violence of power is unacceptable only when we see it in action.”

— Olivier Razac

“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

“Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from…

— Emil Cioran

“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

“Words can make revolutions without having weapons.”

— Benito Taibo