The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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 interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.