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“...he'll come back. We all come back, Kate. These private little revolutions always die. The compromise is always made. In a peculiar way. Frank is right-- every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again. I don't think he went very far. He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.”
― Arthur Miller, All My Sons

“Revolutions are the things of the past. The current generation believes we get one life, and we should enjoy and live it to the fullest. That’s why they don’t know what sacrifice means. Revolution requires sacrifices and the people of today are neither willing nor capable of sacrifice. Therefore, we can’t have revolutions today. All we can have now are movements.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."

[On Water]”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Collected Stories of Guy de Maupassant

“Plans are for those without the good sense to savor the present. Others make plans and neglect their opportunities as they trickle through their fingers like dust. We find beauty in what is.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell

“Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel, ON POWER: The Natural History of Its Growth

“Never wait for a woman to show interest. It is not her interest we seek, but her desire,â€� whispered Casanova. “Intrigue her, tantalize her, flatter her and let her know that she is the only one in the room that you truly want. Women want to be admired and desired above all others. Even if they refuse you, they will never forget you.”
― Harry F. MacDonald, Casanova and the Devil's Doorbell

“Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

“Fortune favors the bold. One doesn't win glory by hiding behind the lines.”
― Allison Pataki, The Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Desiree, Napoleon, and the Dynasty That Outlasted the Empire

“Perhaps the most powerful revolutions are the ones that deny they ever happened. They install a new approach and erase an earlier practice so successfully that we look at the world through the structures they leave behind.”
― Christine Desan, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism

“Revolutions always happen a little bit at a time, then all at once.”
― Jeffrey Fry, Distilled Thoughts

“A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The overthrow of beliefs is not immediately followed by the overthrow of institutions; rather, the new beliefs live for a long time in the now desolate and eerie house of their predecessors, which they themselves preserve, because of the housing shortage.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Revolutions begin this way, with men willing to fight no matter what the odds, volunteering to give up everything because they had nothing.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“The American Negro saw, in the land from which he had been snatched and thrown into slavery, a great pageant of political progress. He realized that just thirty years ago there were only three independent nations in the whole of Africa. He knew that by 1963 more than thirty-four African nations had risen from colonial bondage. The Negro saw black statesmen voting on vital issues in the United Nations—and knew that in many cities of his own land he was not permitted to take that significant walk to the ballot box. He saw black kings and potentates ruling from palaces—and knew he had been condemned to move from small ghettos to larger ones. Witnessing the drama of Negro progress elsewhere in the world, witnessing a level of conspicuous consumption at home exceeding anything in our history, it was natural that by 1963 Negroes would rise with resolution and demand a share of governing power, and living conditions measured by American standards rather than by the standards of colonial impoverishment.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“One of many intriguing aspects of Karen Stenner's research on authoritarian predispositions is that it hints at how and why political revolutions might take place in this new and different twenty-first-century world. Over a crackly video link between Australia and Poland, she reminded me that the "authoritarian predisposition" she has identified is not exactly the same thing as closed-mindedness. It is better described as simple-mindedness: people are often attracted to authoritarian ideas because they are bothered by complexity. They dislike divisiveness. They prefer unity. A sudden onslaught of diversity--diversity of opinions, diversity of experiences--therefore makes them angry. They seek solutions in new political language that makes them feel safer and more secure.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“Great revolutions can be done only by those who know very well the great revolutionaries of the past!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Too odd what people think about a leader, too odd what people think about revolution.”
― Soulaiman Mershed, Confession

“Humanity needs three major revolutions: Firstly, the revolution of the elimination of arms production all over the world. Secondly, the revolution of abandonment of all religions while keeping only a small number of spiritual grounds, such as the concept of god or the spirit of the universe. And thirdly, the revolution of killing death by a powerful mobilization of science!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Behind him stood Wa’itari, who believed that a new world war was imminent and who expected to appear after the fall of Europe, as the first hero of Pan-African nationalism. Behind them stood, as in the shadow of all great causes, mere
bandits and murderers, as a pledge of earthly triumph. Behind them again, the silent awakening mass of the black peoples whose hour was striking, whatever happened. Behind them again, very far behind, and perhaps only in Morel’s heart, came the elephants.
'It was in fact a great cause, with the company a great cause always keeps: men of good will and those who exploit them, generous endeavor and sordid calculations, an ideal over the horizon, but also the treachery of ends justifying means. Man’s oldest company, I tell you, a noble cause and a pack of scoundrels behind it, a generous dream and all the purity that’s needed to cause great massacres ...”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“This African revolutionary was no different from all the other revolutionaries who inscribed the words 'liberty,' 'justice' and 'progress' on their flags and then went on to kill, to torture and to suppress all living liberty in the name of their noble and human goal.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“No revolution with a big idea behind it can fail!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The biggest obstacle to all revolutions is usually this sentence: Be patient, bad days will pass, good days will come! This is just a ridiculous sentence! A country in need of revolution needs an immediate revolution, not patience, not even for a second!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Burke's complaint against the [(French)] revolutionaries was that they assumed the right to spend all trusts and endowments on their own self-made emergency. Schools, church foundations, hospitals - all institutions that had been founded by people, now dead, for the benefit of their successors - were expropriated or destroyed, the result being the total waste of accumulated savings, leading to massive inflation, the collapse of education and the loss of the traditional forms of social and medical relief. In this way contempt for the dead leads to the disenfranchisement of the unborn, and all that result is not, perhaps, inevitable, it has been repeated by all subsequent revolutions. Through their contempt for the intentions and emotions of those who had laid things by, revolutions have systematically destroyed the stock of social capital, and always revolutionaries justify this by impeccable utilitarian thinking.”
― Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

“Yes, the revolution was coming for them, too. How many revolutions would they have to live through during the never-ending historicity of their goddamned lives?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

“Generally speaking it is ruled by the Royalists on Mondays, Wednesdays and every other Thursday; in between those, the republican Revolutionaries manage to take over, except once a year when the People's Goat Liberation Army comes down from the hills and attacks the post office.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Time-travelling Caveman

“One does not simply meme revolutions by halves. Even those with the shortest of attention spans could hold their focus for at least 9.81 meters per second squared.”
― Lil Low-Cu$$'t, The Swarm

“This latest shift didn’t really matter all that much: Republic, Empire, it was six to one, half a dozen to the other. It meant little to the average person struggling to make a life. Either form of government could make the mag-levs run on time, and both stepped on individual rights far more than they should. As far as Atour was concerned, the best government was that which governed least. Something a step or two above anarchy would be ideal.
Now there was a power-hungry Emperor running things. Both history and personal experience had taught Atour that in as little as a few years, or as much as a few centuries, there would come evolution - or revolution - and this, too, would pass. The new rulers would start out full of promise and hope and good intentions, and gradually settle into mediocrity. A benevolent but inept king was as bad as a despot.”
― Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Death Star

“Repeatedly silenced stories are the ones which lead revolutions.”
― Faisal Khosa, The Making of Martyrs in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh: Indira, Bhutto & Mujib

“Haiti was the stuff of American nightmare: a nation of black slaves who had killed off their white masters.”
― N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

“If a progressive revolution is imminent in a country, we can consider that country very lucky because progressive revolutions make societies leap forward in time at rocket speed!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan