| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43931 |
| QUOTATION: | The rebel, unlike the revolutionary, does not attempt to undermine the social order as a whole. The rebel attacks the tyrant; the revolutionary attacks tyranny. I grant that there are rebels who regard all governments as tyrannical; nonetheless, it is abuses that they condemn, not power itself. Revolutionaries, on the other hand, are convinced that the evil does not lie in the excesses of the constituted order but in order itself. The difference, it seems to me, is considerable. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet. “Revolt, Revolution, Rebellion,” Alternating Current, Viking (1973). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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