“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”

— Georg Büchner , Danton's Death

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Georg Büchner 43

German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose 1813–1837

Nick Turse (1975) American writer

Ghost Nation: An Ethnic Cleansing Campaign by the Government Threatens to Empty South Sudan https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/ghost-nation/ , July 2017

“He who had dug his own grave
looks attentively
at the gravedigger's work,
but not pedantically:
for this one
digs a grave
not for himself.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish writer

"He who had dug his own grave", from To Abel and Cain, commemorating his escape from the Nazis by his 1943 killing of an SS guard who had been assigned to watch as he dug his own grave, as quoted in "10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust" by Alan Boyle at Listverse (9 November 2014) http://listverse.com/2014/11/09/10-amazing-ways-people-survived-the-holocaust/

“The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.”

Charles Henry Fowler (1837–1908) American bishop

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 537.

“Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.”

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader

(January 1793) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 414]

“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

“The reformist illusion was paid for and is being paid for by the working class, its leaders and parties, which heroically and tragically defended it to the last moment, confirming in a dramatic fashion the phrase of the XVIII Century French revolutionary Louis de Saint-Just: "Those who make revolution half way only dig their own graves."”

Miguel Enríquez (1944–1974) Chilean politician

From an Interview Enríquez held shortly after the military coup of September 11, 1973 that ended the democratically elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende