Most Revolutionary Quotes

#1. I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

Christian De Duve

#2. (Questlove) Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop?

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#3. If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.

Geza Vermes

#4. The church is: a conspiracy of love for a dying world, a spy mission into enemy occupied territory ruled by the powers of evil; a prophet from God with the greatest news the world has ever heard, the most life changing and most revolutionary institution that has existed on earth.

Peter Kreeft

#5. The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

Rosa Luxemburg

#7. How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

Christopher Hitchens

#8. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey - and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Gloria Steinem

#9. 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.

Vandana Shiva

#10. The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H.G.Wells

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

Marina Abramovic

#12. Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men.

Ronald Syme

#13. A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

George Sarton

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

Donatella Versace

#16. The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

Avi Lewis

#17. I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#18. The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

Karl Hess

#19. Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in.

Douglas Adams

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

Frank Zappa

#21. Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Walter Lippmann

#22. I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

Ving Rhames

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

Lester Bangs

#24. I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Patch Adams

#25. The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#26. The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Lincoln Steffens

#27. If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

#28. The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Henry A. Kissinger

#29. If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

Erica Jong

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

Howard Zinn

#31. We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

John Eldredge

#32. The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

#33. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

Nirmala Srivastava

#34. The hypostatic union, or the union of the divine and human natures in the One Person of the Word, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, was not only a truth of the greatest, most revolutionary, and most existential actuality, but it was the central truth of all being and all history.

Thomas Merton

#35. Television was the most revolutionary event of the century. Its importance was in a class with the discovery of gunpowder and the invention of the printing press, which changed the human condition for centuries afterward.

Russell Baker

#36. I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

Gloria Steinem

#37. The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.

Carlos Andres Gomez

#38. The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

Marvin Ammori

#39. The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Rosa Luxemburg

#40. I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world ... .because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Tony Benn

#41. A big, sweeping, and rapturous Hollywood love story that could turn out to be the most revolutionary movie of the year! A film in which love feels almost as if it were being invented. It is also a rare crowd-pleaser with the potential to change hearts and minds.

Owen Gleiberman

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

Daniel Dennett

#43. The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing.

Colman McCarthy

#44. Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

Albert Einstein

#45. We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual ...

Bill W.

#46. Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

Che Guevara

#47. The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity of the victory of a revolutionary new order on this globe.

Adolf Hitler

#48. The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

Che Guevara

#49. The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.

Tony Dovale

#50. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

Tony Dovale

#51. The battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

A. D. Coleman

#52. Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

Walter Wink

#53. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

Steve Wozniak

#54. Tangerine tango was still in. Cardigans without buttons were in. Bahia bands were in. Senhor do Bonfim. Make a wish? But hardly anyone considered the most radical move: be yourself. Beauty is always a revolutionary act.

Chris Campanioni

#55. It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

Alfred Douglas

#56. Like most artists, everything I produced was connected to who I was - and so I suffered according to how my work was received. The idea that anyone might be able to detach their personal value from their public output was revolutionary.

Jessie Burton

#57. John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

Michele Bachmann

#58. America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Bill Shuster

#59. If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

George Bernard Shaw

#60. Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Whittaker Chambers

#61. It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.

Tony Hoare

#62. As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

Molefi Kete Asante

#63. A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

Ashraf Dehghani

#64. Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

Gary Snyder

#65. Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriot's niece, and a dead man's daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#66. Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

Esther Forbes

#67. 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.

Benito Mussolini

#68. A revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

Shulamith Firestone

#69. Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Johann Most

#70. The Prussian state is, for Hegel, the model most akin to the rational state because it represents, thanks both to the Protestant religion and the authority of the monarchy, a synthesis between the revolutionary exigencies of principles and the traditional exigencies of organization.

Leo Strauss

#71. One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

Bryant McGill

#72. Another example may be the robust revival today of traditional or pre-revolutionary beliefs, rituals, customs, ceremonies, and even superstitions, most of which were once strenuously denounced and suppressed during the nation's drive for a cosmopolitan modernity.

Xiaobing Tang

#73. The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless
most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

Guy Kawasaki

#74. In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.

Eric Hoffer

#75. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

#76. They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Johann Most

#77. 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

#78. We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

Kevin O'Higgins

#79. 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.

Kurt Vonnegut

#80. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Gerald W. Johnson

#82. Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.

Tony Dovale

#83. I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#84. We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

H. Rap Brown

#85. Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Francis Schaeffer

#86. Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

Tony Dovale

#87. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

#88. Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

John Steinbeck

#89. There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.

Steven Weinberg

#90. I am afraid, my dear niece, that a 'mere woman' is something you most certainly are not.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#91. In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.

Kenneth Keniston

#92. Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

James Buchan

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

David Graeber

#94. The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

George Orwell

#95. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

George Bernard Shaw

#96. America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world.

Matthew Stewart

#97. [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

Richard M. Weaver

#98. Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

Johann Most

#99. Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

Scott Fujita

#100. We may live in an age when everything has to be "radical" and "revolutionary." For Luther the most radical thing one could do was to learn the basics of the faith with the simple trust of a little child.

Carl R. Trueman