When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don’t want to change the world, you want to blow it up.[La Révolution dont tu réves n’est pas la notre : tu ne veux pas changer le monde, tu veux le faire sauter.]
The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.[Die Revolution verdampft, und es bleibt nur der Schlamm einer neuen Bürokratie.]
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.[Toutes les révolutions modernes ont abouti à un renforcement de l’État.]
You say you want a revolution, well, you know, we all want to change the world… But when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.
You cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible.
The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that, in revolutionary times like the present, vital issues are settled, not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite of them.
The wind of revolutions is not tractable.[Le vent des révolutions n’est pas maniable.]
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
