Vincenzo Cuoco Quotes

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Changing a political system is not a question of contesting and polemicizing, but of blowing everything up.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Change will always be violent.

... apostles of anarchy, bloodshed and atheism.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.