Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.3, ch.3.

Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

-Proudhon, PierreJoseph
On Europe after the1848 revolution. Quoted in A J P Taylor From Napoleon to the Second International (1993).

Then washed in the brightness of this vision, I saw how in its radiance would grow and be nourished and suddenly burst into terrible and splendid bloom the blood-red flower of revolution.

-Randall, Dudley
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

  L'amour est un jeu, la poe¤  sie est unjeu, la vie doit devenir un jeu (c'est le seul espoir de nos luttes politiques) et 'la re¤  volution elle-me"  me est unjeu', comme disaient les plus conscients des re¤  volutionnaires de mai. Love is a game, poetry is a game, life should become a game (it's the only hope for our political struggles) and 'the revolution itself is a game', as the most aware of the May revolutionaries said.

-Robbe-Grillet, Alain
  Projet pour une re¤  volution a'   NewYork.

To attempt to export revolution is nonsense.

-Stalin,Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
  Said to Roy Howard, US newspaper proprietor,1 Mar.

Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d'e¤  tat by the second rankötroupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men.

-Stoppard, SirTom originally Tom Straussler
  The Real Inspector Hound.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

-Swift, Graham
  Waterland, ch.27.

The Industrial Revolution.

-Toynbee, Arnold
^1  Title of Oxford lectures, published posthumously in 1884.The phrase passed into common usage.

Il a e¤  te¤   permis de craindre que la Re¤  volution, comme Saturne, de¤  vora"  t successivement tous ses enfants. There is reason to fear that the Revolution may, like Saturn, devour each of her children one by one.

-Vergniaud, PierreVicturnien
  Spoken at his trial, Oct.

It will do us no harm to retool our imaginations. AIDS is a major revolution in how writers write† Our heroes and heroines will have to change. The only thing AIDS is good for is fiction.Writers will have to thinkdifferently.

-Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw
  In The Guardian,7 Mar.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
  Attributed remark,7 Nov.

The new industrial revolution is a two-edged sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, assuming that humanity survives long enough to reach a period in whichsuch a benefit ispossible.If, however, we proceed along the clear and obvious lines of our traditional behavior, and follow our traditional worship of progress and the fifth freedomöthe freedom to exploitöit is practically certain that we shall have to face a decade or more of ruin and despair.

-Wiener, Norbert
  The Human Use of Human Beings.

We are redefining and restating our socialism in terms of thescientific revolution† The Britain that will be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Labour Party Conference,1Oct. His phrase has since been memorably rendered as 'the white heat of the technological revolution'.