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For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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).

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

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.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.