Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

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

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

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

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

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

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

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

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

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

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

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

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

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

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.

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

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

The rich will always betray the poor.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

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

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

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

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

We are living at the moment in revolutionary times. Argentineans probably are more aware of it than anybody else, because they tasted it several years earlier - but now the whole world is in trouble.

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

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.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

All boundaries are conventions.

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.

A fine line separates revolutionary ideas from ridiculous ones.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.