Top 100 Quotes About A Revolutionary
#1. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
#2. The idea that you could rethink the thing you'd always thought you wanted and change your plan - it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful -Andie
Morgan Matson
#3. The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey P. Newton
#4. As a revolutionary, I don't just want to sit by and say, "Oh this feels good, let's just do it." I'm going to die for what I believe in and stand for it.
LeCrae
#5. First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
Steve Jobs
#6. I thought about it all the way home. Of all the things I had wanted to be when i was a little girl, a revolutionary certainly wasn't one of them.
Assata Shakur
#7. People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don't actually have to behave like one.
Banksy
#8. You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
Myles Horton
#9. Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Lionel Trilling
#10. The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war.
Vera Brittain
#11. The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#12. It's Tolstoy, by the way," I say as I open the door.
He turns around. "What?"
Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up.
"The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a
pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.
Melina Marchetta
#13. If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
Adolf Hitler
#14. Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.
Guy Kawasaki
#15. I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY
Dinesh D'Souza
#16. You said yourself that the people of Luna need a revolutionary." She lifted her chin, holding his gaze. "So I'm going to Luna, and I'm going to start a revolution.
Marissa Meyer
#17. It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.
Alfred Douglas
#19. A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were omniscient and women none too bright.
Margaret Mitchell
#20. Cantor's discovery that lines, planes, cubes, and polytopes were all equivalent as sets of points goes a long way toward explaining why set theory was such a revolutionary development for math-revolutionary in theory and practice both.
David Foster Wallace
#21. We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.
Joe Slovo
#22. If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.
John Lennon
#23. Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
Pamela Sargent
#24. He shrugged against her. "The people of Luna don't need a princess. They need a revolutionary."
Cinder furrowed her brow. "A revolutionary," she repeated. She liked that a lot better than princess.
Marissa Meyer
#26. Why shouldn't loving puppets be a revolutionary act, in a world where so many people love drone warfare?
Nell Zink
#27. Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.
George Carlin
#29. I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
John Adams
#30. The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary.
G.K. Chesterton
#31. What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.
Walter Benjamin
#32. After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.
Frank Gaffney
#33. 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
#34. Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.
Louis O. Kelso
#35. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.
James Victore
#36. The United States is both a conservative power, defending the international status quo against those who would change it through violence, and a revolutionary power seeking to replace
Walter Russell Mead
#37. Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.
Cornelius Castoriadis
#38. When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.
Mark Hyman
#40. You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
Huey Newton
#41. But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society.
Brian D. McLaren
#43. By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Jerry Rubin
#45. I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.
Hermann Goring
#46. I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.
Dinesh D'Souza
#47. Fascism is a revolutionary force, it wants to destroy the established order and take its place - take its money, its businesses, everything it has because, to these people, the governing class in Europe is hesitant, ineffective, effete. So, destroy it.
Alan Furst
#48. It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
David Harris
#49. With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity ... We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty ... We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.
Wifredo Lam
#50. I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.
Kathe Kollwitz
#51. A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.
Preston Manning
#52. The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Pablo Picasso
#53. The people of Luna don't need a princess. They need a revolutionary." Cinder furrowed her brow. "A revolutionary," she repeated. She liked that a lot better than princess. The
Marissa Meyer
#54. It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.
Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues
#55. To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
Kate Millett
#56. I embrace the PKI because it is a revolutionary force. PKI go forward. PKI never retreat. PKI grow. PKI be strong. Onward.
Sukarno
#57. We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state
Seamus Costello
#60. Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?
Andrea Dworkin
#61. Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?
Yiyun Li
#62. There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.
A.E. Samaan
#63. I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.
Michael Gove
#64. Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.
Ruth Reichl
#65. I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.
Amiri Baraka
#66. If you want to preach a revolutionary message, wear a suit.
Nelson Mandela
#67. Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
Johann Most
#68. Facts are a strange thing ... when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.
Richard Diaz
#69. When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.
Jane Fonda
#70. It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.
Tucker Max
#71. 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
#72. When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.
Malcolm X
#73. Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.
King George V
#74. Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.
Murray Rothbard
#75. I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.
Jane Fonda
#76. 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.
George Maciunas
#77. A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
#79. When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.
Donald Johanson
#80. True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#81. We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
Hugo Chavez
#82. See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson
Rick Riordan
#83. We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell
#84. A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Assata Shakur
#85. Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.
Michael Meade
#86. A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict from a revolutionary passion.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#87. Not for the first time, I longed to tell someone that I was one of them, a sympathizer with the Left, a revolutionary fighting for peace, equality, democracy, freedom, and independence, all the noble things my people had died for and I had hid for.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#88. What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
Walter Lippmann
#89. Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.
Steve Krug
#90. If you cry 'Forward' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
Anton Chekhov
#91. But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.
Hugo Chavez
#92. Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht
#93. It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.
Orlando Figes
#94. a
world
where all
human beings
are taken care of
shouldn't be called
a "revolutionary"
way of life
yet
it is.
-burn
Amanda Lovelace
#95. Yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music
Bob Marley
#96. Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.
Vladimir Lenin
#97. People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be free and do what I want." So he had to be put out of the way quickly because he was a revolutionary.
Frederick Lenz
#99. It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.
Penelope Cruz
#100. A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.
Kim Jong Il
