Revolutionaries Quotes · Page 3

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

— Staceyann Chin

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

— Christopher Hitchens

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We…

— Robert Darnton

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

— Edmond de Goncourt

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.”

— Noah Levine

“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place,…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

— Chokwe Lumumba

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports…

— John Eliot

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so…

— Anita Roddick

Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows…

— Bhagat Singh

Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is…

— Constant Lambert

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that…

— George Orwell

“But his main character flaw was that of so many French revolutionaries: a zeal for human rights so self-righteous that it translated…

— Tom Reiss

“The System has played a trick on today’s would-be revolutionaries and rebels. The trick is so cute that if it had been…

— Theodore J. Kaczynski

“This pursuit of security in the past, this attempt to find a haven in a fixed dogma and an organizational hierarchy as…

— Murray Bookchin

“People are born as revolutionaries. The accident of life decides whether one becomes a Red or a White revolutionary. [Writing about Otto…

— Ludwig Bamberger

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

— Dan Wells

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

— Erykah Badu

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

— Lillian Hellman

“When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch

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

— Fidel Castro

“A petty concern with mere evidence is an antiquated and bourgeois feature of the captalist legal system. We are revolutionaries. We convict…

— Ernesto Guevara

“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can…

— Hannah Arendt

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

— John Lennon

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

— Shashi Tharoor

“When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.”

— William T. Vollmann

“Quid custodiet ipsos custodes? who will keep watch over the guardians? It's the revolutionaries who are polite, that you must watch out…

— Guy Clinton

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out…

— Ruby Dee

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run…

— Phillip Lopate

“Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.”

— Niall Ferguson

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

“I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.”

— G.N. Chevalier

We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.

— Alan Colmes

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

— Assata Shakur

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The richest fuckin' people in the richest country in the world - you gonna tell them some little guy in a hole…

— Robert Stone

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,…

— Will Durant