Revolutionary Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.