A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age-the search for the freedom and self-fulfillment of man.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

We made a revolution in 1917 to make things better, not worse. Since then we have sacrificed one generation after another. We have known nothing but hardship. Now we want to live.