Revolutionary Quotes · Page 49

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll…

— Gary Hamel

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

— Tracie Thoms

I'm not conscious of being a revolutionary. This is my life, looking through my glasses at my little world, but this world…

— Alessandro Michele

We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like…

— Bhagat Singh

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than…

— Courtney Love

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and…

— Jose Mujica

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

— Richard Yates

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn…

— Boris Pasternak

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted…

— William Beveridge

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of…

— Peter Kropotkin

...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by…

— J. Stalin

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

— Leon Trotsky

John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively…

— Michele Bachmann

Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and…

— Mao Zedong

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just,…

— Mao Zedong

Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and…

— Andrew Neel

Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.

— Sonia Gandhi

Though violence is not lawful, when it is offered in self-defense or for the defense of the defenseless, it is an act…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible…

— George Orwell

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

— Fidel Castro

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 knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was…

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Lionel Trilling