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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
-George Bernard Shaw
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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.
-Sydney Smith
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
-Tom Stoppard
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The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.
-Henry David Thoreau
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In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
-Leon Trotsky
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Revolutions are always verbose.
-Leon Trotsky
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
-Barbara Tuchman
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On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.
-Source Unknown
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If not us, who? If not now, when?
-Source Unknown
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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
-Raoul Vaneigem
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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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.
-Alice Walker
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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
-Rebecca West
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You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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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.
-Mao Zedong
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Books about Revolution
