Revolutionary Quotes · Page 25

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

— Charles Mingus

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where…

— Laura Nyro

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

— Christopher Hitchens

To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me…

— Lena Waithe

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

— Paulo Freire

The American idea my ancestors fought for during the Revolutionary War is as exciting and revolutionary today as it was 250 years ago.

— Madison Cawthorn

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

— Fred Hampton

There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or…

— Jerry Vlasak

I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If…

— Issa Rae

By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no…

— James Victore

“In Russia, war will never be popular with the profound masses of people. Revolutionary ideas are more in their taste than a…

— Nikolai Maklakov

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either…

— Jonah Goldberg

There's a time when people say your work is revolutionary, but you have to keep being revolutionary. I can't keep shooting pop…

— Rankin

For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations…

— Mariela Castro

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries…

— Leon Trotsky

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves…

— Fred Hampton

I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the…

— James Patterson

The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders…

— Joe Conason

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society,…

— Philip Yancey

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not…

— Bertrand Russell

The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is one which destroys the entire state to the roots and exterminates all…

— Sergey Nechayev

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

— Lancelot Hogben

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

— Rosa Luxemburg

I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary…

— Ferdinand Marcos

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

— Francois Duvalier

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate…

— Johann Most

Jesus Christ to me, is probably the most compassionate and revolutionary thinker of all time.

— Scott Fujita

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale…

— Wyndham Lewis

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

— Karl Liebknecht

“Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

— Leon Trotsky

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

— Karl Marx

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

— Aldous Huxley

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but…

— Andris Nelsons

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

— James Connolly

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

— Christopher Moore