Quote by Stephen Hunter

“Charles, meanwhile, had started to raise funds in all manner of semiconstitutional and unconstitutional ways.”

— Daniel Hannan

“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

“In “Stealth,” his unpublished 2003 report on Charles’s political development, Coppin suggests that Charles harbored a hatred of the government so intense it could…

— Jane Mayer

“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 detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.”

— Maziar Bahari

“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

“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

“Charles’s aim, he said, was to tear the government out “at the root.”

— Jane Mayer

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the…

— John Lennon

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

— Joe Bageant

“They denounced him for his “Parliamentary Cretinism” and accused him of “providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People’s Consciousness and diverting…

— Arundhati Roy

“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