Revolutionary Quotes

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

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

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

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

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

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.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

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

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.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.