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What is admirable in the clash of young minds is that no one can foresee the spark that sets off the explosion, or predict what kind of explosion it will be. A moment of lightheartedness produces a burst of laughter, and then, at the height of merriment, a serious note is struck. A hasty word or an idle phrase may give the proceedings an entirely new turn, opening up unexplored. (Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862)

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The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms. (Franz Fanon, Algeria, 1961)

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