“People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.”

“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.”

“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”

“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.”

“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”

“People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.”