E. J. Hobsbawn 1917-2012

"However limited the ostensible aims of a revolution, the light of the New Jerusalem must shine through the cracks in the masonry of the eternal Establishment which it opens. When the Bastille falls, the normal criteria of what is possible on earth are suspended," 

ur "Thomas Paine" i Labouring Men. Studies in the History of Labour av E. J. Hobsbawm