In the revolutionary context of today, with an amazing adequacy, one quote comes to mind:
Proletarian revolutions… criticize themselves constantly, interrupt themselves continually in their course, come back to the apparently accomplished in order to begin it afresh, deride with unmerciful thoroughness the inadequacies, weakness, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their adversary only in order that he may draw new strength from the earth and rise again, more gigantic, before them, recoil ever and anon from the indefinite prodigiousness of their own aims, until a situation has been created which makes all turning back impossible.
(Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte)
