Full-Circle Revolution/Quotes

"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution,

Take a bow for the new revolution,

Smile and grin at the change all around,

Pick up my guitar and play,

Just like yesterday,

Then I'll get on my knees and pray...

We don't get fooled again!"

- The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again"

""Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.""

- Talleyrand-Perigord, Advisor to Napoleon.

""How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.""

- G. K. Chesterton

""'Beasts of England' was the song of the Rebellion. But the Rebellion is now completed. The execution of the traitors this afternoon was the final act. The enemy both external and internal has been defeated. In 'Beasts of England' we expressed our longing for a better society in the days to come. But that society has now been established. Clearly this song has no longer any purpose.""

- Squealer, Animal Farm

""We think anarchy and rebellion, as stances, are obsolete, and dishonest. As a matter of fact, they're designed to keep people where they are.""

- Devo co-founder, Jerry Casale

""Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.""

- H.L. Mencken

""I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old...""

- Sidney Carton, A Tale of Two Cities

"''Everybody has the perfect solution,

It's just hard to resist the sweet seduction.

There ain't no trick to winning double what you bet.

Welcome to revolution roulette.''"

- Poets of the Fall, Revolution Roulette