Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

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

Rioting is not revolutionary.

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

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

The rich will always betray the poor.

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

The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

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.

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

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

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

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

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

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.

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