The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.

The social subjugation of woman was the vilest counter-revolution ever carried out.

No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed

Fashion made a harsh mistress.

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

It is commonplace observation that women are forever trying to straighten their hair if it is curly and curl it if it is straight, bind their breasts if they are large and pad them if they are small, darken their hair if it is light and lighten it if it is dark. Not all these measures are dictated by the fantom of fashion. They all reflect dissatisfaction with the body as it is, and an insistent desire that it be otherwise, not natural but controlled, fabricated. Many of the devices adopted by women are not cosmetic or ornamental, but disguise of the actual, arising from fear and distaste.

Revolutionary keeps alive the desire to strike in the masses and only prospers when important strikes, accompanied by violence, take place.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Bloody revolutions are often necessary, thanks to human stupidity; yet they are always an evil, a monstrous evil and a great disaster, not only with regard to the victims, but also for the sake of the purity and perfection of the purpose in whose name they take place.

The politicisation of the issue has had absurd results.

The worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit that there is any need for change.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.