Action Quote by Stephen Kinzer

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

“Successful revolutionaries do occasionally end up in positions of power, but they seem more likely, on the historical record, to end up dead, courtesy…

— Anonymous

“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

“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

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

— Leo Tolstoy

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world…

— Christopher Caldwell

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that…

— Shirin Ebadi

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

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

— Dale Jamieson

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

— Gary Yourofsky

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith