revolutions quotes

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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Madeleine Albright

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Benjamin Disraeli

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Noam Chomsky

Revolutions go not backward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Abraham Lincoln