"Reverence of bourgeois public opinion is a more impassable barrier to the activity of the social reformers than even the bourgeois laws. It may be put down as a law of modern capitalist governments, that the more 'democratic' the more 'liberal' and 'free' is their regime, the more respectable are their national socialists, and the more stupid the obeisance of the national Labour Party before the public opinion of the bourgeoisie. Why have an outward policeman over Mr. Mac-Donald when there is an inward one within his soul?" - Trotsky
QUOTATION: Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
ATTRIBUTION: Albert Camus (1913–1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. “Rebellion and Revolution,” ch. 3, The Rebel (1951, trans. 1953).
QUOTATION:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
ATTRIBUTION:Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
