Revolutionary Quotes

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

The rich will always betray the poor.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.