Revolutionary Quotes

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. View quote
George C. Marshall
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. View quote
Albert Camus
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. View quote
Erich Fromm
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. View quote
John Updike
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. View quote
Georg Büchner
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science. (Poul Anderson)
I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought. View quote
H. G. Wells
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science. View quote
Bruce H. Lipton
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. View quote
Bobby Sands
As revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the voice of the people. View quote
François Duvalier
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism. (Terry Eagleton)
Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. View quote
Walter Lippmann
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. View quote
Jane Fonda
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees. View quote
Salvador Allende
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke