Quotes about Revolution

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

We spent a good part of the twentieth century trying out various forms of revolution, from Marxism to savage capitalism, ranging through each and every intermediate shading. Our hope that a change in government can improve our luck is like hoping to win the lottery: totally without rational foundation.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Ninety-three was the war of Europe against France, and of France against Paris. And what was the Revolution? It was the victory of France over Europe, and of Paris over France. Hence the immensity of that terrible moment?, '93, greater than all the rest of the century

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

As long as there are misérables there will be a cloud on the horizon that can become a phantom and a phantom that can become Marat.