Revolutionary Act Quotes

#1. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell

Amie Kaufman

#2. Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

Abiola Abrams

#3. I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

Zack De La Rocha

#4. Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch.

Kathleen Parker

#5. The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

Avi Lewis

#6. 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

#7. In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

#8. When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Mark Hyman

#9. 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

#10. Why shouldn't loving puppets be a revolutionary act, in a world where so many people love drone warfare?

Nell Zink

#11. The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

Vandana Shiva

#12. Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms ...

Andrew Jackson

#14. In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Aldous Huxley

#15. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey - and to be welcomed when she comes home.

Gloria Steinem

#16. The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.

Rosa Luxemburg

#17. I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Patch Adams

#18. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Bryant McGill

#19. During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

#20. Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

Jerry Saltz

#21. But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Tara Brach

#22. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business. Yet we have no other world to live in. And

Matt Haig

#23. But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth.

Howard Zinn

#24. 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

#25. Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

Marlon Riggs

#26. I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.

Chuck Hogan

#27. Optimism is a revolutionary act

Cameron Crowe

#28. Defining oneself is a revolutionary act, and, as described in her memoir, Janet Mock fiercely fought to free herself with exquisite bravery and sensitivity. Redefining Realness is full of hope, dreams, and determination. It is a true American girl story.

Michaela Angela Davis

#29. Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Carol P. Christ

#31. The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

Sam Keen

#32. Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.

Wilhelm Reich

#33. Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

Dinty W. Moore

#34. Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

Bruce Catton

#35. To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Erica Jong

#36. A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Preston Manning

#37. Just as you cannot see, at pleasure, with your ears and you cannot, at will, hear with your eyes so too you cannot make the state act in the interests of the working people. As an organ in the social body, its purpose is for the repression of self-determination.

Rudolf Rocker