“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.” LawOrderFoundWealthRevolutionBirthDestructionChaosAlternativesMeritAnarchyRegimesMonarchyFeudalismDecrepit Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.” MatterReadingRealizingDoubtChangedRevolutionEssentialsRussiaFallenSovietRegimesGogol Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king” KnowsMenWayWantLooksIdeasCountryRunningPastHouseKnow HowGenerationsPaintingRevolutionKingsGardenArmyFactoriesRegimesEstatesPointingMistressSouvenirsCountry Houses Author:Peter Weiss
“In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.” ChildrenFactsSeemsPoliticalPurposeRealizingSuccessfulEventsRevolutionRevolutionaryDullComparisonRegimesMonarchyRestorationDespotismAmerican RevolutionFrench RevolutionDevouring Author:Irving Kristol
“I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev.” ThinkingBigsRevolutionTragedyUnionsDependentSovietRegimesSoviet UnionCubanReactionariesCuban RevolutionBrezhnev Author:Tariq Ali
“It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.” WorldLinesNew YorkRevolutionDrawsTradeOperationsIslamicRegimesWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterAjaxIslamic Revolution Author:Stephen Kinzer
“For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end.” EndsReasonRevolutionBirthRegimes Book:Interpreting the French Revolution Source: Interpreting the French Revolution
“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.” PeopleShouldHas BeensFatherRevolutionShould HaveIronicRegimesShould Have BeenFittingOrganisation Book:A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution
“If you look at the list of the top wheat importers for 2010, almost half of them are Middle Eastern regimes: Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Morocco, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and Tunisia. Egypt is the number-one importer of wheat in the entire world. Tunisia leads the entire world in per capita wheat consumption. So it's no wonder that the revolutions began with Tunisians waving baguettes in the streets and Egyptians wearing helmets made of bread.” IfsWorldLooksMadeNumbersHalfWonderStreetsMiddleRevolutionIraqListsBreadRegimesConsumptionEgyptEasternWheatArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisHelmetLibyaMoroccoYemenTunisiaAlgeriaBaguettes Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know, I mean, harpsichord is a really easy target, isn't it? I mean, it's - it's just how it is.” KnowsMeanEasyRevolutionHeyTargetPlusRegimesAristocracyFrench RevolutionHey You Author:Mahan Esfahani
“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.” WayWellsKindDesireOpportunityLanguageLevelsRightsRevolutionEqualTransformationStructureStartingConnectedIdeologyEmpiresComing OutRegimesEqual RightsAmerican RevolutionEmergenceFrench RevolutionPlantations Author:Laurent Dubois
“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.” FirstsBigsRememberRevolutionSlaveScalesExperimentsDramaticRegimesEmancipationLarge ScaleHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois
“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.” IfsWorldHappensWould BeLeftSecretColorRevolutionTrumpDirectClintonSouthChinaRussiaPlentyPropagandaTortureIranLatinRegimesSouth AfricaWarfarePresidencyExceptionalInvasionLatin AmericaBombingAmerican RevolutionUmbrellaCoupsLatin AmericanSponsorshipRegime Change Author:Andre Vltchek
“The Shah's regime was an incorrigible regime and after a while, when the revolution happened, the situation began to change, revolutionary conditions was created...we simply wanted to change the regime.” WantedSituationHappenedConditionsRevolutionRevolutionaryRegimesIncorrigible Author:Akbar Ganji
“There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.” ClearTheoryRevolutionDemandExpectationsVarietyRisingSatisfyingRegimesIncapableExplosionsIranian Author:Akbar Ganji
“China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.” IfsKnowsAmericaRevolutionChinaAspirationRegimesCapsGreenhousesGreenhouse Gases Author:James Lovelock