Quotes About Revolutionary Politics

#1. Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth ... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

Wyndham Lewis

#2. The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution.

Frederick Lenz

#3. What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.

Nora Roberts

#4. History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.

S.M. Sigerson

#5. 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

#6. Everything else is perspective and window dressing.

C. Robert Cargill

#7. Given the pervasive secrecy of the Bush-Cheney administration, and the sorry consequences of that disposition, President Barack Obama's early emphasis on openness in government seems almost inevitable.

Noah Feldman

#8. I've been back less than two weeks, and already I've turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.

Ally Carter

#9. 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

#10. Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

Bruce Pavitt

#11. I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.

T.D. Jakes

#12. I'm not having one in the house, Petunia! Didn't we swear when we took him in we'd stamp out that dangerous nonsense?

J.K. Rowling

#13. I hate making TV documentaries.

Jamie Oliver

#14. There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Adrienne Rich

#15. 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

#16. Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Diane Watson

#17. He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing.

Barbara Olson

#18. The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

Dan Savage

#19. The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Huey P. Newton

#20. Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

Douglas Wilson

#21. If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

Nikita Khrushchev

#22. I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles De Gaulle

#23. Dealing with pain for surviving on this thirsty concrete

Kjiva

#24. We're over-delivering value against other choices I think consumers can get.

Don Mattrick

#25. When you examine the genesis of great works of art, successful start-ups, and revolutionary shifts in politics, you can always trace back a history of monetary and nonmonetary exchange, the hidden patrons and underlying favors.

Amanda Palmer

#26. The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

Bernard Bailyn

#27. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

Russell Kirk

#28. But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

T. S. Eliot

#29. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Erich Fromm

#30. On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Carl Sagan

#31. What is a woman's greatest virtue?
Patience.

India Edghill

#32. 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

#33. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Mao Zedong