Revolutionary Quotes · Page 16

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

— Leon Trotsky

Iran has pursued a deliberate policy of kidnapping and unjustly detaining innocent Americans since the very beginning of its revolutionary regime.

— Robert C. O'Brien

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have…

— Aeschines

Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political…

— Stephen Kinzer

“Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the…

— Walter Wink

What's most revolutionary about Uber is not the tool that consumers use but the fact that the only equipment needed by its…

— Glenn Kelman

The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

— Anonymous

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

— Myles Horton

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is…

— George Haven Putnam

“But the man we see every day – the worker in Mr. Gradgrind’s factory, the little clerk in Mr. Gradgrind’s office –…

— Anonymous

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is…

— George Eliot

Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for…

— Arthur Miller

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will…

— Joseph Stalin

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

— Cynthia Kauffman

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

— Che Guevara

“A revolutionary war is never confined within the bounds of military action. Because its purpose is to destroy an existing society and…

— Sebastian Marshall

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types…

— Pete Seeger

History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But…

— Edward Hallett Carr

What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also…

— Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had…

— Merold Westphal

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists…

— John Hirst

“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary…

— Criss Jami

This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite…

— C. L. R. James

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

— Che Guevara

Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.

— Steve Miller

“Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.”

— Joel Shepherd

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your…

— Olivia Munn

“Anarchism is the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be.”

— Crimethinc

It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.

— Friedrich Engels

Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.

— Huey Newton

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last…

— Jerry Rubin

Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did…

— Marion Bailey

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

— Calvin Coolidge

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

— Jen Kirkman

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

— John Naisbitt

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

— Andrea Dworkin

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

— Chris Murphy

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

— Dorothy Allison