The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
The word ''revolution'' itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the ''revolution'' of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the ''revolving door'' of a politics which has ''liberated'' women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
True revolutionaries are like God — they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.
You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' — ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''
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