Revolutionary Quotes · Page 18

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.

— Courtney Act

I love the charm of fashion from the past, I love how the clothes were revolutionary and how they changed the way…

— Dawn O'Porter

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

— Victor Serge

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on…

— Fred Hampton

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a…

— Jerry Rubin

In order to really believe in an idea being revolutionary, you have to truly understand how it's going to revolutionize life.

— Jennifer Hyman

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

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

— Vandana Shiva

Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most…

— Richard M. Weaver

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

We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Like Che Guevara, he'd appear wearing his beret, his pointed beard with the drooping mustache, and the cocksure swagger of someone who…

— André Aciman

Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important…

— Fidel Castro

“They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been…

— Poul Anderson

Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and…

— Bertrand Russell

“We socialists, anarchists, hoboes, chicken thieves, outlaws and undesirable citizens of the U>S> are with you heart and soul. You will notice…

— Jack London

“In all of these countries, a significant portion of the population had abandoned their faith in the ideological constructs of power, just…

— Chris Hedges

Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created…

— William O. Douglas

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral…

— Nelson Mandela

“Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But…

— Milan Kundera

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what…

— William J. Duiker

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

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Che Guevara

“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

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

— Frederick Seitz

“Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and…

— Anne Lamott

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.

— A. J. Muste

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

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

— Shirley Williams

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

— Larry Page

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

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