#revolutions

History is a relay of revolutions. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#relay #revolutions

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#indispensable #like #needs #restitution #reversion

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ↗

— William Godwin

#produce #reason #revolutions #sober #tranquil

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

#government #people #punishment #retribution #revolts

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#revolutions #rose #think #water #you

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ↗

— Albert Camus

#modern #power #reinforcement #revolutions #state

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#arguably #failed #important #most #objective