Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

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

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

If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.

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

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

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

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

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.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

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

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

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

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

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.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

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

Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

My advice for Obama concerning Iran is just to do what you already promised you would do, open up communications with Iran. Which is what I did after the Shah was deposed, as you know when the revolutionary government came in, I still had diplomatic relations with Iran, otherwise the hostages wouldn't have been there. We had about, as you know, 60 some diplomats in Iran, they had about the same number in Washington.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

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

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals.

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

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

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

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.