Terry Pratchett Quotes

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Revolution is not a one time event.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

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.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.