Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

A “revolutionary” today means an individual for whom modern vulgarity is not triumphing quickly enough. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selec...

They speak emphatically of “transforming the world,” when the most to which they can aspire is to certain secondary remodelings of society. ...

Those who defend revolutions cite speeches; those who accuse them cite facts. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 441

Between the causes of a revolution and its realization in actions ideologies insert themselves which end up determining the course and even ...

When a revolution breaks out, the appetites are placed at the service of ideals; when the revolution triumphs, ideals are placed at the serv...

A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 437

Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change “ma...

Revolutions are more a subject for sociology than for history. Manifestations of those depths of human nature that nothing educates, nothing...

Even though history does not have laws, the course of a revolution is easily foreseen, because stupidity and madness do have laws. Escolios ...

Revolution is a permanent historical possibility. Revolution does not have causes, but occasions it takes advantage of. Escolios a un Texto ...

The most convinced reactionary is the repentant revolutionary, that is to say: the man who has known the reality of the problems and has dis...

Victorious revolutions have been outbursts of greed. Only defeated revolutions tend to be insurrections of the oppressed. Escolios a un Text...

Every episode of a revolution needs a partisan to relate it and an adversary to explain it. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 33...

For the true results of a prior revolution, let us consult the revolutionaries who are preparing the next one. Escolios a un Texto Implícito...

Reforms are the entrance ramps to revolutions. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 324

Revolution already seems to be less a tactic for executing a plan than a drug for fleeing from modern boredom during one’s spare time. Escol...

The revolutionary’s picturesque outfit changes colors imperceptibly until it matches the severe uniform of a police officer. Escolios a un T...

It is not so much the plebeian merriment that revolutions unleash which frightens the reactionary as the zealously bourgeois order that they...

A youth’s revolutionary activity is the rite of passage between adolescence and the bourgeoisie. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

The looks of the participants in candid photographs of revolutionary scenes seem half cretinous, half demented. Escolios a un Texto Implícit...