Quotes about revolution

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Fantasy. Lunacy.

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

Indigo was precisely the sort of person who would declare that a just revolution was worth a million deaths. As long as she wasn’t one of them, of course.

A Revolution is nothing other than the replacement of one given type of Authority with another.

The revolution needs artists, just like it needs healers and storytellers, just like it needs the organizers and protesters. It's all one big organism working together.

What's crazy is the idea that revolutionaries must shoot and bomb and kill, that revolution is the same as war. (p305)

The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden—which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution.

Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.

Revolutions are, by definition unpredictable.

The new regime which had succeeded his after the coup had become as fragmentary as the old, in the time-honoured way of all revolutions.

Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.