Revolutionary Quotes

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

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

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

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.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

There's nothing revolutionary about Saturday Night Fever . You can see the same kind of movement at your local disco.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.