I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. Michael Chabon
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.Karl Heinrich Marx
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.Martin Luther King
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class. Joan Didion