Adlai Stevenson I Quotes

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought that they are not the ideal way to change.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

I was born in revolution.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

Tyranny may precipitate a revolutionary movement at any time.

Revolution, not elections!

We can neither export revolution nor can the United States prevent it.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

I am said to be a revolutionist in my sympathies, by birth, by breeding and by principle. I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Revolutions are like onions. You peel away layer after layer.

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