Best 189 quotes in «revolutionary quotes» category

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

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.

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

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.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

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

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

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

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.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

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

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.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

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

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.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

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

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.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

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

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.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

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

Rioting is not revolutionary.

Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

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

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

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

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.

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

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