Ernst Rohm Quotes

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

The French revolution was… to terminate the strife of kings among themselves, and to commence that between kings and people…. The princes of Europe, who had hitherto had no enemies but themselves, viewed it in the light of a common foe.

If there is one safe generalization in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The revolution can only defend itself by attacking.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history

We have lived six centuries in six years. Let not this costly experience be lost on you. It is time to profit by the crimes of the monarchy, the errors of the Constituent Assembly, the vacillations and eccentricities of the Legislative Assembly, the misdeeds of the decemviral tyranny, the calamities of anarchy, and the misfortunes of civil war.

If a revolution is to succeed, sometimes you must kill.

Revolutions are not made for export

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

Insurrections made by a few who attempt to raise the people in order to achieve a state of affairs that these very people do not understand, must fear defeat, their inevitable end.

The men who make revolutions are always despised by those who profit from them.

In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to (by both) the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

The oppressed have no alternative—for they have no power—but to fight.

Revolution against imperialism is not an action of inviting guests to have meal, writing articles, braiding, education, softness or fear of enemy. But it is a class wrath seized to topple another class

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

A war between Austria and Russia would end either with the overthrow of the Romanovs or with the overthrow of the Hapsburgs—or perhaps the overthrow of both.

A revolution cannot survive without an enemy in front of it..

Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.