At the end he sentences the hapless Alexander Throttlebottom (Victor Moore once again) to death; but the revolution devours its children, and the dictator is sentenced to death, too.

At the same time, similar trials took place in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria, as the "revolution devoured its sons."

The revolution devours itself.

The shooting script of our film is based on the human-rights declaration of the United Nations, and is the story of how a revolution devours its children.

It is a telling measure of the new mood that the revolution that began so hopefully has now devoured its young.

(p. 123) In the process, Brinton says, 'the revolution, like Saturn, devours its children,' quoting Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (p. 121)

Everyone knows that revolutions often devour their children.

There is a saying that a revolution devours its own children.

"Reactionary Prophet: Edmund Burke understood before anyone else that revolutions devour their young-and turn into their opposites" by Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic Monthly, April 2004.