Revolution Quote by Walter Wink

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most…

— Walter Wink

“The prolonged use of violence may lead in the end to the loss of freedom, since it is liable to bring about not a…

— Karl R. Popper

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

“No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes…

— Victor Klemperer

“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

“There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn’t believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due…

— James Joyce

“I don’t encourage chaos to initiate a revolution. The only reason to revolt is because the people find the government revolting.”

— Jarod Kintz

“We must realistically accept that revolution is a social war, not because we like war, but because we recognize that the status quo is…

— Peter Gelderloos

Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and…

— Emma Goldman

“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.”

— victor hugo

“There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance…

— Various