Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

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

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

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 tell the truth is revolutionary.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

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

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

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.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

All boundaries are conventions.

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.

Allez, philosophes, enseignez, éclairez, allumez, pensez haut, parlez haut, courez joyeux au grand soleil, fraternisez avec les places publiques, annoncez les bonnes nouvelles, prodiguez les alphabets, proclamez les droits, chantez les Marseillaises, semez les enthousiasmes, arrachez des branches vertes aux chênes. Faites de l'idée un tourbillon. Cette foule peut être sublimée. Sachons nous servir de ce vaste embrasement des principes et des vertus qui pétille, éclate et frissonne à de certaines heures. Ces pieds nus, ces bras nus, ces haillons, ces ignorances, ces abjections, ces ténèbres, peuvent être employés à la conquête de l'idéal. Regardez à travers le peuple et vous apercevrez la vérité. Ce vil sable que vous foulez aux pieds, qu'on le jette dans la fournaise, qu'il y fonde et qu'il y bouillonne, il deviendra cristal splendide, et c'est grâce à lui que Galilée et Newton découvriront les astres.

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.

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant. An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.

And, when the revolutionary cries that he is fighting for ‘freedom’, be sure to go running away from him just as fast as you can, for you can be damned certain he’s fighting for the freedom to tell you what to do.

Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.

A woman is a socialist, who brings revolution and change in the family.

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Can one young man change a civilization?

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

Criticisms and revolt do not solve a thing, what does, in actuality, not in theory, is awareness of the reality.

Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).

He (Orwell) always made an impression of the passing traveler who meets one on the station, points out that one is waiting for the wrong train, and vanishes

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman`s bed. Monarch`s blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.