Revolutionary famous quotes
04-27-2025
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. Muste -
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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.
-- Adrienne Rich -
You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.
-- Afeni Shakur -
The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.
-- Al Goldstein -
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
-- Albert Camus -
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.
-- Anne Lamott -
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.
-- Anne Lamott -
Telling the truth is always revolutionary
-- Antonio Gramsci -
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.
-- Ariel Dorfman -
I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!
-- Arnold Schoenberg -
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
-- Assata Shakur -
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
-- Assata Shakur -
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
-- Assata Shakur -
Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
-- Assata Shakur -
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
-- Assata Shakur -
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.
-- Audre Lorde -
The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.
-- Augusto Boal -
Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.
-- Ayi Kwei Armah -
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.
-- Beck -
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.
-- Bela Kun -
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
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.
-- Bertrand Russell -
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
-- C. L. R. James -
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
-- Camille Desmoulins -
The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.
-- Carlos Andres Gomez -
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
-- Che Guevara -
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation
-- Che Guevara -
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
-- Chris Hedges -
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
-- Christopher Lasch -
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
-- Christopher Moore -
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...
-- Claude Debussy -
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.
-- Cyril Connolly -
The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
-- Dan Savage -
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
-- Donatella Versace -
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.
-- Doris Lessing -
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.
-- Edwin Land -
The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
-- Eric Hoffer -
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
-- Erica Jong -
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution
-- Fidel Castro -
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
-- Fidel Castro -
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
-- Fidel Castro -
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.
-- Fidel Castro -
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.
-- Fidel Castro -
I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.
-- Francois Duvalier -
You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.
-- Fred Hampton -
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
-- Frederic Chopin -
Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.
-- Frederick Seitz -
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
-- Georg Buchner -
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
-- George Dantzig -
If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.
-- George Orwell -
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.
-- George Orwell -
science is the most revolutionary force in the world.
-- George Sarton -
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.
-- Georges Bataille -
the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.
-- Georgia Harkness -
In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.
-- Gerald W. Johnson -
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
-- Gertrude Stein -
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.
-- Ghassan Kanafani -
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
-- Guy Debord -
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.
-- Herbert Schiller -
I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.
-- Hermann Goring -
My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.
-- Howard Stern -
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
-- Howard Zinn -
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
-- Huey Newton -
But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.
-- Hugo Chavez -
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
-- Italo Calvino -
No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.
-- James Connolly -
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.
-- James Fenton -
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.
-- Jenny Holzer -
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
-- Johann Most -
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
-- Johann Most -
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
-- John Dos Passos -
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
-- John Updike -
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
-- Jose Bergamin -
The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.
-- Jose Lezama Lima -
The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.
-- Jozsef Mindszenty -
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.
-- Julia Serano -
In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.
-- Justus von Liebig -
The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.
-- Karl Hess -
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.
-- Karl Marx -
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.
-- Karl Marx -
I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.
-- Kathe Kollwitz -
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries .
-- Kim Gordon -
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
-- Lancelot Hogben -
Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
-- Larry Page -
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.
-- Laura Dern -
It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.
-- Laverne Cox -
Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.
-- Leon M. Lederman
