Revolutions Quotes

“Revolutions can occur only when significant portions of the elites, and especially the military, defect or stand aside. Indeed, in most revolutions it is the elites who mobilize the population to help them overthrow the regime.”
― Jack A. Goldstone, Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction

“Italians began to refer to the frequent rotations of power between different groups as a revolutio, from the Latin “revolvere,” to cycle or revolve.”
― Jack A. Goldstone, Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction