Dean Inge Quotes

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

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

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Set Europe ablaze!

Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

The revolution can only defend itself by attacking.

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

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

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

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

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.

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.

[In the French Revolution] there is much to approve and much to condemn…. An essential change was necessary for the happiness and dignity of a great people, long in a state of degradation.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

History teaches that apparent power of organization and armed resistance are of no avail to a cause psychologically undermined. "Revolutions," as a matter of fact, are primarily psychological phenomena.

Revolutions never go backward.

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.