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Quotes about revolutions and revo
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The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution. (Hoffman Abbie)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (Hoffman Abbie)
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. (Hoffman Abbie)
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. (Hoffman Abbie)
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. (Hoffman Abbie)
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. (Hoffman Abbie)
So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. (Hoffman Abbie)
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. (Hoffman Abbie)
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed. (Hoffman Abbie)
I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. (Hoffman Abbie)
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. (Hoffman Abbie)
Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. (Hoffman Abbie)
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. (Hoffman Abbie)
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. (Hoffman Abbie)
I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. (Hoffman Abbie)
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had [To] do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. (Hoffman Abbie)
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (Hoffman Abbie)
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement -- but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. (Hoffman Abbie)
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free. (Hoffman Abbie)
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. (Hoffman Abbie)
Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. (Hoffman Abbie)
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. (Hoffman Abbie)
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. (Hoffman Abbie)
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. (Hoffman Abbie)
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings. (Hoffman Abbie)
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