Agatha Christie Quotes

A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

Revolutions never go backward.

Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And that at the stage that we have evolved to now, a revolution would be extremely painful.

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

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.