Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

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.

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

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.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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.

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.

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.

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 emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

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

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

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.

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

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'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

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.

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

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.

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.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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