The ideal world of our revolutionaries […] is a flaming sense of the immediacy of the idea, a feeling that there is something in all men better than their present fate, and a conviction that what is, not only ought not, but need not be.
Crane Brinton (1898-1968)
The Anatomy of Revolution, 2.3 (1952)
Quotations by:
Brinton, Crane
No good revolutionary leader would ever bunt.
Crane Brinton (1898-1968)
The Anatomy of Revolution, 7.4 (1952)