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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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.
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.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.