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Your Quotes for 13 August 2005 - Revolution

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born in the Oriente Province of Cuba on this day in 1926, the son of plantation owners. After getting a law degree, he led an unsuccessful revolt in 1953, spent a couple of years in jail, and tried it again in 1956. After just over two years of guerilla action, the second attempt succeeded. Castro promptly abandoned his promise to maintain the democratic constitution and installed himself as permanent dictator. I think it's a good time to look at some cautionary quotes on Revolution.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
     - Erich Fromm, 1900 - 1980

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
     - Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
     - George Gordon Noel Byron, 1788 - 1824

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
     - Joseph Conrad, 1857 - 1924

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
     - Abbie Hoffman, 1936 - 1989

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