Revolution always unforlds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
Revolution Quotes
Lenin has the most entries, followed by Che Guevara, Abbie Hoffman, Mao and Marx. Three sourced lines come from different directions. Bakunin, in 1868, describes a revolution organized from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre. Erich Fromm, in Escape from Freedom (1941), says the successful revolutionary is a statesman and the unsuccessful one a criminal. Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Dispossessed (1974), says you cannot buy the Revolution or make it, you can only be it.
Flagged: Samuel Adams is credited with a line about an irate, tireless minority setting brush fires, and Henry Ford with one about revolution before morning if people knew about the money system. Both are marked misattributed. A disputed line about a National-Socialist revolution is credited to Hitler.
Most quoted on revolution:
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
No real social change has ever come about without a revolution.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Revolution is a city flower; it does not flourish in the country.
In a revolution, one triumphs or dies (if it is a true revolution).
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Revolutions are, by definition unpredictable. A predictable revolution never erupts.
Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?