Quotes About The Revolutionaries

#1. To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Andy Zaltzman

#2. We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.

Ben Klassen

#3. The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.

Boris Pasternak

#4. We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

Muriel Rukeyser

#5. Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

Elie Wiesel

#6. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.

Albert Mohler

#7. There is no point in lingering on the fallacies of the revolutionaries of unrepression; one could go on and on, but everything would come back to the same basic thing: the impossibility of living without repression.

Ernest Becker

#8. Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

#9. The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Salman Rushdie

#10. Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

Chris Terrio

#11. In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

Jonah Goldberg

#12. I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

Marty Rubin

#13. The revolutionaries failed to institute the novel forms of social and political organization they hankered after; Workers would not accept a ten-day week, or state-appointed priests, or rectangular departements, or the cult of the Supreme Being.

Alan Ryan

#14. Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Niall Ferguson

#15. I report to the revolutionaries infiltrated among the counterrevolutionary infiltrators.

Italo Calvino

#16. You shouldn't abuse the revolutionaries, Mother Streetcorner. My pistol is on your side. It's to help you find more things worth eating in your basket.

Victor Hugo

#17. One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

Christopher Caldwell

#18. Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

Linus Torvalds

#19. We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries.

Brother Andrew

#20. Music is playing. We will, we will rock you. But no one will be rocked here. There will be no revolution. People are too comfortable, and comfort is the revolutionaries' worst enemy.

Eric Weiner

#21. Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people.

John Lennon

#22. The worst crime on the part of the revolutionaries would be to give the smallest concessions to the privileges and prejudices of the whites. Whoever gives his little finger to the devil of chauvinism is lost.

Leon Trotsky

#23. In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

Hamza Yusuf

#24. Indeed, some "revolutionaries" brand as "innocents," "dreamers," or even "reactionaries"; those who would challenge this educational practice. But one does not liberate people by alienating them. Authentic liberation - the process of humanization - is not another deposit to be made in men.

Paulo Freire

#25. The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Charles A. Reich

#26. The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism. That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us.

Stokely Carmichael

#27. Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression.

A.E. Samaan

#28. The study of Marxism outside of revolutionary struggle can form library rats, but not revolutionaries. Participation in the revolutionary struggle without the study of Marxism will inevitably be filled with hazards, be less confident, and turn out to be half-blind.

Joshua Rubenstein

#29. The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

Curtis Bean Dall

#30. One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.

Marcy Kaptur

#31. History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

John Eliot

#32. Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?

Heather Brooke

#33. Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.

Constant Lambert

#34. The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.

Peter Hitchens

#35. This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#36. The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

George Orwell

#37. We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#39. Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

Phillip Lopate

#40. Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

Anita Roddick

#41. Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those

Ji-li Jiang

#42. There are basically two kinds of revolutionaries living in the world today. One looks at a crowd of people and asks how each might become a catalyst in bringing about a better world. The other looks to a picture of some fabled leader and asks how that crowd might come to follow him to the death.

James Tracy

#43. We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#44. Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Victor Serge

#45. It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

A.E. Samaan

#46. That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#47. Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by

William L. Shirer

#48. True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#49. There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Edmond De Goncourt

#50. Revolutionaries are born the moment they find a cause worthy of sacrifice.

Daniel K. Norris

#51. Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#52. Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ...

David Mazzucchelli

#53. Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Che Guevara

#54. This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

Lupe Fiasco

#55. The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Robert Darnton

#56. Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#57. Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

George Orwell

#58. It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#59. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

Assata Shakur

#60. We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

Ernst Toller

#61. 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

#62. Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Noah Levine

#63. The law cannot do it for us. We must do it for ourselves. Women in this country must become revolutionaries." - Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress

Jessica Bennett

#64. Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Tim Jackson

#65. What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Ellen Willis

#66. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

Saul Alinsky

#67. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!

Carlos Wallace

#68. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

John Lennon

#69. Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late

John Buchanan

#70. The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

Pope Pius X

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

Kevin O'Higgins

#72. Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Robin G. Collingwood

#73. To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

Henry A. Kissinger

#74. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At

Steven Pinker

#75. I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

Eamonn Ceannt

#76. They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#77. I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

Ben Affleck

#78. Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

Fidel Castro

#79. The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole in South America can have something they can't? Like shit, man. If the little guy in the hole can be a revolutionary, they can be revolutionaries too.

Robert Stone

#80. Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Henry A. Kissinger

#81. I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

Richard Hatch

#82. When Jefferson visited Adams in England in the spring of 1786, the two former revolutionaries were presented at court and George III ostentatiously turned his back on them both. Neither man ever forgot the insult or the friend standing next to him when it happened.

Joseph J. Ellis

#83. In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

#84. Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

Robin S. Sharma

#85. Prior to providing their freedom UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, apparently sensing a change in the tide, said that the two pilots were released, 'to show Cuba that we are also men, revolutionaries and human.

Peter Polack

#86. Space garbage," he answers like it's obvious. "The sky's always falling. Always. You'll see. People have no idea."
No people don't, because they're not revolutionaries like us.

Jandy Nelson

#87. The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

Shashi Tharoor

#88. I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love.

Che Guevera

#89. Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Assata Shakur

#90. I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Laura Nyro

#91. Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Gordon

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

Huey P. Newton

#93. I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Fidel Castro

#94. Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

Staceyann Chin

#95. When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.

William T. Vollmann

#96. Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

Peter F. Hamilton

#97. A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#98. It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

Jean-Paul Sartre

#99. Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#100. It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,

Malcolm Gladwell