Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Quotes

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Revolutions come in two stages: the bit where everything gets smashed and the bit where you have to build it again. The first is great fun; the second is so very hard.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.