To the author of the meme here:

The guillotine was invented about 80 years after Louis XIV, associated with Versailles in late 17th and early 18th Century; it’s known as the instrument that beheaded Louis XVI and Marie Antionette in the French Revolution in 1789.

Having said that, the point here is a good one.  People–any people–will put up with only so much indifference to their suffering before they’ll take action.

Now, a “revolution” today can only be nonviolent.  Those in positions of power have at their disposal such incredibly powerful martial technologies that violent assaults are impossible.