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"Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."

"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."

"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."

"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
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