You say you want a revolution

      “You imagine I act out of unscrupulous self-interest; true, all revolutionaries do. They agitate and harangue and justify every villainy in the name of high ideals; they lie, to delude the people, whom they hold in contempt. They seek nothing but their personal ends…”

Flashman and the Dragon, p.134, Fontana Paperback edition, 1986.




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The Marx bother

I found myself hoping that she would be thwarted of her vengeance on my big-headed revolutionary; whoever he was, he had looked the kind of likely lad who would sooner spar with the peelers than eat his dinner, and keep things lively all round.

Royal Flash, p.165, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.

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