Funny, I was basing my comments on a video taped show I saw on the BBC when
I was last in the UK. But perhaps I totally misinterpreted what they were
saying.
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| In a real revolution, the best characters do not come to the front. A |
| violent revolution falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics and |
| of tyrannical hypocrites at first. Afterwards come the turn of all the |
| pretentious intellectual failures of the time. Such are the chiefs and |
| the leaders. You will notice that I have left out the mere rogues. |
| The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane and devoted natures, the |
| unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement, but it passes away |
| from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its |
| victims: the victims of disgust, disenchantment -- often of remorse. |
| Hopes grotesquely betrayed, ideals caricatured -- that is the definition |
| of revolutionary success. |
| "Under Western Eyes" (1911) |
| Joseph Conrad |