A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. - (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it. - (Inge, Dean William R. - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor. - (Smith, Sydney - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. - (Gasset, Jose Ortega Y - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. - (Castro, Fidel - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. - (Zedong, Mao - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience. - (Walker, Alice - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

All revolutions devour their own children. - (Rohm, Ernst - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. - (Galbraith, John Kenneth - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes. - (Kapuscinski, Ryszard - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. - (Johnson, Samuel - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses. - (Liebknecht, Karl - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. - (Desmoulins, Camille - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. - (Diderot, Denis - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - (Kafka, Franz - Revolutions and Revolutionaries)