Best Revolutionaries Quotations
99 Revolutionaries quotes by 85 unique authors
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Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting…
— Wallace Stegner
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The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of…
— Cory Doctorow
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The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
— Shashi Tharoor
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
— George Orwell
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of…
— Vladimir Lenin
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This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.
— Dan Wells
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It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
— James A. Baldwin
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s…
— Ann Voskamp
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The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10%…
— Bill Mollison
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It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some…
— Veronica Roth
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
— Adolf Hitler
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Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new…
— Che Guevara
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The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
— Robert Darnton
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
— Tim Jackson
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Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy…
— Stephen Kinzer
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn…
— Ellen Willis
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What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock…
— Ellen Willis
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the…
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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We are revolutionaries.
— Stokely Carmichael
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This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all…
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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Revolutionaries wait. For my head on a silver plate.
— Coldplay
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