Revolutionary Quotes

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

Don't mourn, Organise

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.