Revolutionary Movement Quotes

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

Mao Zedong

#3. Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Andrea Dworkin

#4. No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

James Connolly

#5. I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Fidel Castro

#6. In its critical aspect, the revolutionary movement of our times is primarily a
violent denunciation of the formal hypocrisy that presides over bourgeois society.

Albert Camus

#7. Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Lenin

#8. The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

Karl Marx

#9. I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Lyndon LaRouche

#10. This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

Doris Lessing

#11. Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#12. It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

Friedrich Engels

#13. We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society ... What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

Adam Davidson

#15. A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

Walter Lippmann

#16. anarchism is to Marxism-Leninism what Anabaptism was to the magisterial Reformation: a revolutionary movement predicated upon negating, rather than seizing control of, state power.

Mark Van Steenwyk

#17. Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

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

A.E. Samaan

#19. Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

Sachin Tendulkar

#20. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett

#21. But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society.

Brian D. McLaren

#22. There was a hunger in her, and girls were not supposed to be hungry. They were supposed to nibble sparingly when at table, and their minds were supposed to be satisfied with a slim diet too.

Frances Hardinge

#23. Expect the rapidly expanding homeschool movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to rebuild a free society with constitutional protections.

Ron Paul

#24. An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

Cyril Connolly

#25. America's revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world.

Matthew Stewart

#26. It was hard to be around Jean because he looked at her and saw what Meg's future would have been if she hadn't been brave enough to run away - and if Jean hadn't been brave enough to stay.

Anne Bishop

#27. We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.

Angela Y. Davis

#28. To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Simone Weil

#29. Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
- Hannah Schneider

Marisha Pessl

#30. Unless you learn to deal with your life in its entirety,
there is no permanent solution for human problems.

Sri Amma Bhagwan.

#31. Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.

Jane Smiley

#32. I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

Vince Cable

#33. Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.

Calvin Miller