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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All revolutions are violent revolutions.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.