revolution

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.

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!

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

If I were an American as I am an Englishman while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms - never! never! never!

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

All reformers are bachelors.