John Adams Quotes

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup against the country's democratic institutions.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

Political systems in the Middle East are totally dysfunctional and we are going to have to open them up.

In the past decade, nearly a dozen elected Latin American presidents have been forced from office.

It is a wrong form of government we are living under, and we, the workers stand for the overthrow of the whole damnable institution.

A revolution has taken place within the government but it has not yet penetrated civil society.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

People have tried all kinds of ways to fix things, like electing Obama and having a debate about decreasing the power of corporations. Then the Supreme Court gives them personhood with the Citizens United decision. You realize that no matter what you do, who you elect, how wonderful your article is, how eloquently you speak on CNN, none of it will make a difference. Ultimately, the only choice is a revolution that pulls off a soft regime change.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.