Revolutionary Quotes

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

...the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.