Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 104; on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
Blüthenstaub (1798)
At his trial https://worldhistoryproject.org/1924/2/26/adolf-hitler-goes-on-trial-for-treason, 24 February 1924 <br class="br">1920s
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 104; on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Section 1, paragraph 44, lines 1-2.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
“I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period
Je confesse aujourd'hui de bonne foi que je m'en veux d'avoir autrefois vu en noir, et le gouvernement révolutionnaire et Robespierre et Saint-Just. Je crois que ces hommes valaient mieux à eux seuls que tous les révolutionnaires ensemble.
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 69, 27082 2892-7]
On Maximilien de Robespierre
Wilhelm Reich book The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Preface to the Third Edition (August 1942)
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933)
Context: If, by being revolutionary, one means rational rebellion against intolerable social conditions, if, by being radical, one means "going to the root of things," the rational will to improve them, then fascism is never revolutionary. True, it may have the aspect of revolutionary emotions. But one would not call that physician revolutionary who proceeds against a disease with violent cursing but the other who quietly, courageously and conscientiously studies and fights the causes of the disease. Fascist rebelliousness always occurs where fear of the truth turns a revolutionary emotion into illusions.
Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman
Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 142.
Other
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
On the tax charges against him, in a speech at Foley Square in New York City (22 October 1981); published in a full page advertisement in the The New York Times (5 November 1981), as quoted in US Court of Appeals document U.S. v. Sun Myung Moon 718 F.2d 1210 (1983)
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Erich Fromm book Escape from Freedom
Source: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
"On Revolutionary Morality" (1958)
1950's, On Revolutionary Morality (1958)