Causes Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

— Eric Hoffer

It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing…

— Thomas Paine

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously the most…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

— William H. Seward

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

— Vijayashanti

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set…

— Thomas Kuhn

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

— Marjane Satrapi

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

— Victor Hugo

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

— Machado de Assis