Breakdown Quote by Sun Yat-sen

“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

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

— George Soros

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

— Karl Hess

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual…

— Francesco Guicciardini

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a…

— Steven Biko

“There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come…

— Ernest Becker

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

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

— Albert Camus

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

— Tom Stoppard

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too…

— Doris Lessing

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

— Mason Cooley

After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should…

— John Lennon