All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
All revolutions are violent revolutions.