19931 | Every state is more frightened of its own citizens than of external enemies [Spinoza] |
19902 | Any obstruction to the operation of the legislature can be removed forcibly by the people [Locke] |
19908 | Rebelling against an illegitimate power is no sin [Locke] |
19911 | If legislators confiscate property, or enslave people, they are no longer owed obedience [Locke] |
19747 | Revolutionaries usually confuse liberty with total freedom, and end up with heavier chains [Rousseau] |
19837 | If inhabitants are widely dispersed, organising a revolt is much more difficult [Rousseau] |
19843 | The state is not bound to leave civil authority to its leaders [Rousseau] |
21756 | All revolutions result from spirit changing its categories, to achieve a deeper understanding [Hegel] |
22971 | In moving from capitalism to communism a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is needed [Marx] |
21991 | The middle class gain freedom through property, but workers can only free all of humanity [Marx, by Singer] |
21990 | Theory is as much a part of a revolution as material force is [Marx] |
20273 | The French Revolution gave trusting Europe the false delusion of instant recovery [Nietzsche] |
23867 | After a bloody revolution the group which already had the power comes to the fore [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
21997 | In Marxism the state will be superseded [Singer] |
20288 | You can't condemn violent revolution without assessing the evils it prevents [Singer] |
22258 | Passion for progress is always short-lived [Sandel] |
23125 | Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary [Gopnik] |