Revolutionary Quotes · Page 10

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

— Anonymous

I have been a revolutionary for much of my life.

— Susan Rosenberg

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

— Anonymous

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

— Abbie Hoffman

Warhol was proof that you can be revolutionary without being militant.

— Maurizio Cattelan

“Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”

— Che Guevara

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary.

— Claude Debussy

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

— Terry Eagleton

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

— Chris Terrio

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

— Che Guevara

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative,…

— Anonymous

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

— Walter Lippmann

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

— Adolf Hitler

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it…

— David Graeber

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is,…

— George Washington

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and…

— George Orwell

Most conservatives - by which I mean normal people - have little conception of the aggressive and revolutionary force that confronts them.…

— Tom Bethell

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was…

— Anthony Braxton

Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary…

— Bruce Pavitt

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said,…

— Fred Hampton

What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make…

— Boots Riley

“The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that brutal imperial ruling-class capitalist…

— Bell Hooks

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all…

— Frantz Fanon

I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school…

— Madeleine L'Engle

People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,…

— Friedrich Engels

It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked…

— Roger Glover

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our…

— Eric Hoffer

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes…

— Maynard Jackson

“Our challenge, as we enter the new millennium, is to deepen the commonalities and the bonds between these tens of millions, while…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

— Abbie Hoffman

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

— Jose Bergamin

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

— George Orwell

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

— Steve Saint

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll.

— Lester Bangs

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

— Huey Newton

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

— Boots Riley