Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

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

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

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

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.

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

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.

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

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

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 revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

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

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