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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
-Albert Camus
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Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
-Albert Camus
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
-Albert Camus
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
-Alexis Carrel
Reflections on Life
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The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
-Fidel Castro
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-Fidel Castro, Speech on the 2nd anniversary of Revolution, Havana, January, 1961
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had To do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
-Fidel Castro
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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
-Joseph Conrad
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The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.
-Joseph Conrad
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I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right?
-Claire Danes
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The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
-Eugene Debs
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Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
-Camille Desmoulins
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all!
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
-John Dickinson, "The Liberty Song"
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
-John Dickinson
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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.
-Denis Diderot
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
-Milovan Djilas
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We must realize that todays Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
-William O. Douglas
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
-John Dryden
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
-Lawrence Durrell
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You're required to fight the government since they are not obeying the laws of the constitution and it says in the constitution to fight them if they are not.
-James Dye
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Revolutions are the only way we can evolve coincidentally. Otherwise we'll be held back while the people we need to revolt against do.
-James Dye
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man?s mind.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Revolution
