Sparks: A youth-led push for change threatens Orbán’s 16-year rule in Hungary’s elections

The spontaneous mass strike of youth reveals more about the fragility of power than any party congress resolution ever could.

Hunger for change is a physical force, felt in the bones like a cold wind that finally cracks the thickest ice.

The carefully manicured garden of power always contains a few determined weeds that spoil the autocrat's view.

Every safe house on the route to freedom was once just a door someone decided to open.

Simplify, simplify - a government that has grown too large for its people's consent must be reduced to its essentials.

When the old common sense ceases to make sense, the mortar of hegemony crumbles between the stones.

A house divided against the will of its own youth cannot long pretend to stand.

Power that believes itself permanent has already begun its long decay.

Count the years, count the votes, count the young faces - the data of dissent reveals a system cracking.

Those who preach patience to the young have already secured their own comfortable accommodations with power.

A ruler who no longer hears the music of the young has lost the mandate to conduct the orchestra.

Ain't I the future, and won't my hands shape what your old ones can no longer hold?

In the long run, the entrenched ideas of old men are no match for the immediate demands of the young.