Alfredo Stroessner Quotes

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

What began as a political protest turned into a class war and a racial pogrom.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Miserable news from Paris. Another Revolution, barricades, the troops of the line fraternizing with the insurgent National Guards, two Generals shot, to more in the hands and tender mercies of the beastly cowardly Paris mob. Those Parisians are the scum of the earth, and Paris is the crater of the volcano, France, and a bottomless pit of revolution and anarchy.

The social discontent in China today is massive

The commotions in Ireland were so sudden and so violent that it was hard at first either to discern the cause or apply a remedy to that precipitate rebellion.

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

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

I had recommended that we accept the fact that a revolution was in progress and seek to use our not inconsiderable influence to steer its success toward its more moderate protagonists.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend them against the overtaxed.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Jacobite rebellious spirit is so rooted in the nation’s mind that this generation must be pretty well wore out before this country will be quiet.

I fear that some day or another we shall have in Europe a total upsetting of social order, which will drive all wise and experienced men to America.

[On Russia's civil disorder:] Comrade deputies, the most essential thing now is to overcome the crisis, to restore order in the country.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.