REVOLUTION IS REVOLTING: The Mere Threat is Domestic Terrorism

“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship”. George Orwell

“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder”. George Bernard Shaw

“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution…. The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice”. Emma Goldman

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy

“In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end”. Alexis de Tocqueville

“Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong”. Carolyn Heilbrun

“Revolution, In politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment”. Ambrose Bierce

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained, and magnanimous”. Mao Zedong

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State”. Albert Camus