Quotes and Sayings About Revolutionary
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In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
-- A. J. MusteSource : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
To tell the truth is revolutionary.
-- Antonio GramsciSource : Antonio Gramsci (1957). “The Open Marxism of Antonio Gramsci: Translated and Annotated by Carl Marzani”
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Telling the truth is always revolutionary
-- Antonio Gramsci -
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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 SchoenbergSource : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.137, Univ of California Press
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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 ShakurSource : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
-- C. L. R. James