Revolutionary Quotations

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

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

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

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

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.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

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

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

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

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being 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.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

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

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

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.

Aladdin in his most intoxicated moments would never have dreamed of asking his [djinn] for [a polaroid] ... It's utterly new in concept and appearance, utilizing an utterly revolutionary flash system, an utterly revolutionary viewing system, utterly revolutionary electronics, and utterly revolutionary film structure.

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

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

I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

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.

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.

Telling the truth is always revolutionary

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

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.

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...

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

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

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.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

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

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

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