A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
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O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry
on!

The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry
on!

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it read more

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has
been stopped; but when I die it read more

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has
been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its
course.
[Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est
arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et
reprendra sa marche.]