Revolutionary Quotes · Page 25

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

— Shirley Williams

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state…

— John Lennon

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

— Stokely Carmichael

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift…

— Vandana Shiva

To be natural is revolutionary. Tha's why I'm thrilled to work with Prose, a company that celebrates all unique personalities, hair types…

— Lauren Ridloff

A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!

— Che Guevara

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

— Lillian Hellman

“The most revolutionary thing you can do is to be yourself, to speak your truth, to open your arms to life including…

— Rita Mae Brown

She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front…

— David Nicholls

I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without…

— Cynthia Kauffman

I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was…

— Che Guevara

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict…

— Henry A. Wise

Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.…

— Che Guevara

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe…

— John Steinbeck

The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a…

— Huey Newton

A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to…

— Ashraf Dehghani

As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy…

— Andrea Dworkin

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

There's an old saying - you'll never hit a target you can't see. Defining a Creative Challenge is an important step in…

— Josh Linkner

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and…

— George Orwell

These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in…

— Thomas Paine

What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and…

— Robert Coover

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression…

— Bell Hooks

Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years,…

— Carlos Fuentes

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

— Frederick Seitz

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

— Rick Bayan

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

— Vladimir Lenin

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies…

— Nelson Mandela

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

— Fidel Castro

I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is…

— Viola Davis

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

— Chris Hedges

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of…

— Herbert Schiller

Incrementalism in technology leads to irrelevance; what you need is revolutionary change.

— Ruth Porat

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

— Fidel Castro

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

— Elise M. Boulding

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good…

— Dan Wells

“Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.”

— Douglas Wilson

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

— Raquel Welch