Revolutionary Spirit Quotes

#1. My cowardice is such of passion, complimenting the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#2. Where is your Revolutionary spirit?"
"Beheaded," Celeste said.

Marguerite Kaye

#3. It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. Our only hope lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Ernesto Che Guevara

#6. Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.

Chiang Kai-shek

#7. The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

Che Guevara

#8. There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand.

Assata Shakur

#9. Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

Steve Wozniak

#10. The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

Bhagat Singh

#11. The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.

Joseph Conrad

#12. I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Bobby Sands

#13. 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

#14. I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music ... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.

Patch Adams

#15. Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

Gil Kane

#16. As a people, our most cherished and valuable achievements are the achievements of spirit. With an Afrocentric spirit, all things can be made to happen; it is the source of genuine revolutionary commitment.

Molefi Kete Asante

#17. The priest is immense because he makes others believe in a heap of weird things. The Church wanting to do everything and be everything: it is a law of human spirit. Peoples adore authority. Priests are the servants and followers of imagination. The throne and the altar: revolutionary maxim.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Ikue Mori

#19. A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

Kim Jong Il

#20. LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

A.E. Samaan

#21. The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

Enya

#22. The serious people have gone, I build my team again and again I just the un-sirious people if this is sirious let's see a bus which can be handled in the air by the weakest person on the Earth.

Deyth Banger

#23. Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

Stevie Smith

#24. Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Bob Feller

#25. All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

John Masefield

#26. Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

Nikki Giovanni

#27. Beasts of England had been abolished. From now onwards it was forbidden to sing it.

George Orwell

#28. The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

John Adams Gilmer

#29. I don't know why anybody does anything in the winter. I always say, if you want to do something, move to Phoenix.

Gary Reilly

#30. Let us be under no illusion. The Jewish spirit, which was responsible for the alliance of large-scale capital with Marxism and was the driving force behind so many anti-Spanish revolutionary agreements, will not be got rid of in a day.

Francisco Franco

#31. Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.

Geoff Nicholson

#32. During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. Well, that and the fact that he's the famously bad president Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Fallon

#33. I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.

Jim Crace

#34. The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Karl Marx

#35. God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

Martin Luther