All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Modern revolutions tend to strengthen state power rather than diminish it.
- In plain terms
- Revolutions often end up empowering the state.
- What can you take from it?
- Expect revolutions to reinforce authority.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do revolutions consolidate power?
- How can change stay grassroots?
Another view
Some revolutions do achieve lasting decentralization.
More from Albert Camus
All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football.
Permalink to quote #106 All of us, among the ruins, are preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism. But few of us know it.
Permalink to quote #108 All executioners are of the same family.
Permalink to quote #105
Related quotes
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich FrommErich Fromm quote #13 Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Nikita KhrushchevNikita Khrushchev quote #24 By the way, there are increasing signs that the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin as a stupid reactionary…
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein quote #25