Revolutionary Quotes

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.