The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.
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:
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power.
Revolutions are very complex. Nothing is easy. Few people want to risk their necks.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
If the revolution is to be wholly successful, all the counter-revolutions must be defeated.
I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.