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“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far…

— Anonymous

“Nothing worse than a weak man with ambition, who gains power because those before him died rather than because his ideals were grand.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

“Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed”

— Sunday Adelaja

“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

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

— Maziar Bahari

“Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he’d taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned,…

— Louise Penny

“No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process”

— Fela Durotoye

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham