Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Revolution

• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Faults

  "Conversations with Goethe". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, 1836.

• It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Revolution

• What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Revolution, Concern

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