Allan Lichtman Quotes

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

I was born in revolution.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

The National Revolution has begun.

Nothing in American politics is forever.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

Revolutions are not easy.

The parties are all trying to reinvent themselves. I believe this upheaval is destined to take the country's fate into a different direction.

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

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.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.