Quotes About Revolutionist

#1. Because revolution - armed uprising - requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness. A revolutionist has to be willing to fight and die - or he's just a parlor pink. If you separate out the aggressive ones and make them the sheep dogs, the sheep will never give you trouble.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I want
and what I want now is a drink.

Sinclair Lewis

#3. The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

Abbie Hoffman

#4. With all his sincerity and devotion, the authentic, absolute atheist is after all only an abortive saint, and at the same time, a mistaken revolutionist.

Jacques Maritain

#5. 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

#6. Imagination ... is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Wallace Stevens

#7. No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they cannot be shared by all, and who works despite misery and persecution for the regeneration of the world.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#10. A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#12. I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist ... I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

Sylvia Rivera

#13. The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

Frances Perkins

#15. To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

Joan Didion

#16. But the new rebel is a sceptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And

G.K. Chesterton

#17. If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Paul Gauguin

#19. None of These Will Come Easy.

Barack Obama

#20. Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#21. Rylie," he said gently. "I love you. I've loved you since I understood what the word meant. I love who you are now, who you were then. And I'm gonna love you no matter what happens tomorrow, or next week, or next year.

J.B. Hartnett

#22. Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win. Happiness is more important then colors.

Sukant Ratnakar

#23. Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.

Tamora Pierce

#24. I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

Ann Hood

#25. ...An individual, for example, who is afraid of blushing when he enters a large room and faces many people will actually be more prone to blush under these circumstances. In this context, one might amend the saying "The wish is father to the thought" to "The fear is mother of the event.

Viktor E. Frankl

#26. Revolutionists amke a reform, Conservatives only conserve the reform. They never reform the reform, which is often very much wanted.

G.K. Chesterton

#27. What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

William James

#28. You told me earlier that the necklace is your favorite. You'd give up your most treasured gold for the Vrekeners? For this kingdom?" She made a scoffing sound. "Not in a million years. But I'd give it up for you. Because that's what we do - we save each other's asses.

Kresley Cole

#29. In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

Max Anders

#30. Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet.

Robert A. Heinlein