Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.
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