The sadness of the women's movement isthat they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

-Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson
  Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya  Angelou (1989).

   Hope ushers in a Revolutionöas earthquakes are preceded by bright weather. 192

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.2, ch.1.

Wearenot politicians.Wemade ourrevolutiontogetthe politicians out.

-Castro (Ruz), Fidel
  Speech on assuming the presidency, two years after overthrowing the Batista regime.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movementöbut it passes away from them.They are not the leaders of a revolution. Theyare its victims.

-Connor, Sir William Neil pseudonym Cassandra
Under Western Eyes, pt.2, ch.3.

The worst of a revolution is a restoration.

-Fox, CharlesJames
  House of Commons,10 Dec.

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

-Inouye, Daniel Ken
  Response to  Adm  John M Poindexter and Lt Col Oliver L North's contention that their actions were greatly influenced by 'a dangerous world'. In the NewYork Times, 24  Jul.

Today the revolution has been stolen by the revisionist clique of Deng.

-Jiang Qing or  Chiang Ch'ing
  Remark, May. Quoted in Ross Merrill Mao (1993), introduction.

Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
both killed by political opponents.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Speech to Latin  American diplomats,12 Mar.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

-Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de
  Histoire des Girondins.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
   Address to Folger Library Poetry Series, Washington. Collected as'Reciprocity of Prose and Poetry' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).

Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when†the German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  Speech, Petrograd,16  Apr.

There won't be any revolution in America† The people are all too clean.Theyspend all their time changing their shorts and washing themselves.You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

-Linklater, Eric Robert
  Isadore.  Juan in  America, bk.5, pt.3.

Louis XVI: Is this a revolt? Duke of Rochefoucauld-Liancourt: No, sir, it's a revolution.

-Louis XVI
  Exchange after the fall of the Bastille,14  Jul. Quoted in F Dreyfus La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1903), ch.2, section 3. King   of   France   (from   1795).    He   fled   to   Belgium   in   1791, proclaiming  himself  Regent  for  Louis  XVII  in 1793  and  King  in 1795.  On  the  fall  of  Napoleon,  he  landed  at  Calais  (1814)  and began  a  severe  rule,  until  Napoleon's  return  for  the  Hundred Days (1815). His rule was subsequently more moderate.

   A revolution is not a dinner party.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  The Little Red Book, section 2.

   If you wanttoknow thetaste of a pear, you musttastethe pear by eating it for yourself. If you want to know the theoryand methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
   Address to the  Anti- Japanese Military and Political College,  Jul.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

-Marcos, Ferdinand Edralin
  In Time, 6  Jun.

   Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. they have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888), closing words. This translation was approved by Engels, but the phrase is also known as'Workers of the world, unite'. The literal translation of the German is'Proletarians of all lands, unite.'

Es asombroso ver en que¤   se puede convertir la revolucio¤  n rusa a trave¤  s del cerebro de un comerciante yanqui; basta ver las fotos de las revistas norteamericanas, nada ma¤  s que las fotos porque no se¤ leerlas, para comprender que nohay pueblo ma¤  s imbe¤  cil que e¤  se sobre la tierra; no puede haberlo porque tambie¤  n la capacidad de estupidez es limitada en la raza humana. It's astonishing to see what the Russian Revolution can become thanks to the brain of aYankee entrepreneur; you only have to see the photos in North American magazines, only the photos because I can't read them, to realize they're the most stupid people on earth; that's quite possible because even the human race has a limited potential for idiocy.

-Onetti,Juan Carlos
  El pozo (translated as The Pit,1991).