Revolutions Quotes

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.