Sun Yat-sen Quotes

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

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.

We are banned in the Muslim world because we want to discard the rulers in the Muslim world to the dustbin of history.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

In all our history, there is no change of government peacefully.

Either the government will be given to us or we will take it.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

... even political opponents of evil governments show little gratitude for American invasion to modernize them..

Most [Arab] people are very pleased that he is out, but they are embarrassed that they didn't do it and that it was done for them.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.

Whenever we see a state conducted by measures contrary to those made use of in its foundation, we may be assured a great revolution is at hand.

The National Revolution has begun.

This government must go. It is our duty to make sure that it does go.