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Revolutionaries don't get job security. -- Ruby Dee
Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. -- Italo Calvino
Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived. -- Fidel Castro
Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. -- Peter Kropotkin
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. -- Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees. -- Ruby Dee
Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake. -- Constant Lambert
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution). -- Antonio Gramsci
Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late -- John Buchanan
Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us. -- Assata Shakur
We are revolutionaries. -- Stokely Carmichael
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. -- Christopher Lasch
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. -- George Weah
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. -- Robin G. Collingwood
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. -- Tim Jackson
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. -- Erykah Badu
Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too? -- Heather Brooke
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
There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out. -- Ariel Dorfman
I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights. -- Richard Hatch
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 conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. -- Ernst Toller
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown. -- Marcy Kaptur
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized. -- Lupe Fiasco
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 itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. -- Ellen Willis
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
I discovered that there is Indian blood in my ancestry on my father's side - a fact that had not been talked about in my family. No wonder I've often been cast in exotic roles - Indian princesses, Russian revolutionaries, Algerians, Gypsies and Greeks. -- Diana Quick
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things. -- Salman Rushdie
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 the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. -- Ellen Willis
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that? -- Kim Gordon
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive. -- David Graeber
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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 them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. -- Stephen Kinzer
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers. -- Jon Landau
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries. -- Jenny Holzer
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries . -- Kim Gordon
Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks -- Bernardine Dohrn
I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution. -- Marty Rubin
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Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries. -- Robin S
I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries. -- Beryl Bender Birch
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. -- Thomas Sankara
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. -- Che Guevara
Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me. -- Assata Shakur
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists -- Paul Gauguin
Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do -- Linus Torvalds
The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists. -- Pope Pius X
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart. -- Zygmunt Bauman
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. -- George Orwell
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . -- Christopher Hitchens
Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system. -- Chris Terrio
Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. -- Victor Serge
I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity. -- Fidel Castro
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. -- Shashi Tharoor
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. -- Assata Shakur
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. -- Lillian Hellman
I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. -- John Lennon
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. -- Dale Jamieson
[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes. -- Akbar Ganji
I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less. -- Ho Chi Minh
Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right. -- Staceyann Chin
True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. -- Saul Alinsky
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. -- Dorothy Allison
Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous. -- Niall Ferguson
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. -- Adolf Hitler
We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries . -- Elie Wiesel
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? -- Andy Zaltzman
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew. -- Christopher Caldwell
I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights. -- Louis Farrakhan
The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails. -- Boris Pasternak
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves. -- Charles A. Reich
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over? -- Paul Gauguin
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 Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life -- Laura Nyro
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 the 'working masses'. -- Vladimir Lenin
I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. -- Laura Dern
Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state. -- Phillip Lopate
The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power. -- Curtis Bean Dall
In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing. -- Jonah Goldberg
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown -- Marcy Kaptur
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. -- Will Durant
You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders. -- Beck
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries. -- Joseph Stalin
In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion. -- Hamza Yusuf
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! -- Fidel Castro

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