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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatien

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke

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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. – Aristotle

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I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu

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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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