"It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt, in New Yorker

"Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles." - Aristotle, Politics

"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic." - Albert Camus

"A revolution is not a bed of roses ... a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." - Fidel Castro, speech (1961)

"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned." - Georges Jacques Danton

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo