Quotes About Revolutionary Change

#1. True revolutionary change begins by first challenging yourself -- not the world. Until you own your story and the complexities of your experience, no matter how much you may strain against it, you will still be enslaved -- if not by your oppressor, by your past.

Sil Lai Abrams

#2. Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#3. The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change.

Cullen Murphy

#4. Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

Owen Arthur

#5. I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

Assata Shakur

#6. This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

Adolf Galland

#7. 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

#8. What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection to trying to make revolutionary change, and I don't need to change my music to get to a certain audience.

Boots Riley

#9. 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

#10. I believe a lot in gangsta rap, I see in it a lot of positive things as it is. I believe it is only about doing politicization work. Revolutionary change will come from there, it won't come from conscious rap.

Bocafloja

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

Larry Page

#12. I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

Penelope Lively

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

Bill W.

#14. 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

#15. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Saul Alinsky

#16. It is in our best interest to ... embark on a revolutionary change that will lead us away from oil dependency rather than drag our feet and suffer the costs of becoming growingly dependent on a diminishing resource.' Truer words were never written.

Albert Marrin

#17. 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

#18. Nobody cares if I die for fighting Marathi breed.

Kjiva

#19. Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change "man's condition" ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#20. 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

#21. If thousands of Marathi people follow me that means they want revolution on Marathi land.

Kjiva

#22. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

Bhagat Singh

#23. Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary ... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

John Naisbitt

#24. Everyone wants to see change in their life but very few people want to be that change they are waiting to see.

Timothy Pina

#25. 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

#26. Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Mary Daly

#27. I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Bobby Seale

#28. The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

Billy Graham

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

Tony Dovale

#30. All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

Robert D. Maurer

#31. In general, it should be noted, biblical law is evolutionary, not revolutionary...

Joseph Telushkin

#32. The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

Emma Goldman

#33. The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution

Fidel Castro

#34. Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Marsha Blackburn

#35. Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status

Robert Trivers

#36. In the politics of Jesus the world will be changed by non-coercive love or not at all. It's not the task of the church to change the world by legislative force. It's the task of the church to be the world changed by Christ. This is revolutionary in a way that conventional politics never can be.

Brian Zahnd

#37. 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

#38. The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

Jose Mujica

#39. 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

#40. Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#41. Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.

Alan Hirsch

#42. Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

Karl Marx

#43. You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#44. To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward - revolutionary and transforming - and that requires extra factors that were not present before.

Belsebuub

#45. It's also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.

Eric Schmidt

#46. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#47. Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

Bell Hooks

#48. There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Christopher Hitchens

#49. I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

Martin Amis

#50. Be a ripple of hope to all in despair. It will change their lives and yours!

Timothy Pina

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

Carolyn Heilbrun

#52. We are what we do, especially what we do to change what we are ... In
this respect a "revolutionary" literature written for the convinced is just as
much an abandonment as is a conservative literature devoted to the ...
contemplation of one's own navel.

Eduardo Galeano

#53. People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.

Arthur C. Clarke

#54. I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Bill Gates

#55. 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

#56. 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