Ambrose Bierce über Revolution
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Revolution: In der Politik: Ein abrupter Wechsel in der Mißregierungsform. Revolutionen gehen gewöhnlich mit beträchtlichem Blutvergiessen einher, doch man sagt, dass sie es wert sind – eine Einschätzung, die von Nutznießern stammt, deren Blut nicht das Unglück hatte, vergossen zu werden.
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it -- this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.
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