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Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. -- Vladimir Ilich Lenin
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. -- Huey Newton
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods. -- Luis A. Ferre
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. -- Leonard Shlain
The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people. -- Reza Aslan
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel. -- Michael Chabon
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. -- David Graeber
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second. -- Rosa Luxemburg
I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander. -- Akbar Ganji
Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses -- Gary Snyder
More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way. -- George W. Bush
Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough. -- Guy Kawasaki
Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. -- Huey Newton
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. -- Guy Kawasaki
The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path. -- Akbar Ganji
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended. -- Francis Schaeffer
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. -- Mao Zedong
The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce. -- Ban Ki-moon
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. -- Evgeny Morozov
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. -- George Bernard Shaw
Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status -- Robert Trivers
John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved. -- Michele Bachmann
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! -- Wyndham Lewis
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. -- Bela Kun
It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims. -- Emma Goldman
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. -- Susan B. Anthony
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. -- Stephen Ambrose
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money. -- Nawal El Saadawi
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War. -- Benjamin Franklin
Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. -- Guy Kawasaki
As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University. -- Joyce Carol Oates
If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American, they consider him as hero. -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. -- Duong Van Minh
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it. -- Adam Davidson
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period -- John Moody
When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. -- John Moody
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire. -- George Will
Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains. -- Esther Forbes
Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business. -- Henry Rollins
What's insane is a ten percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary war began on less than two percent. How is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage? We must do something. -- Ichabod
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. -- Abraham Lincoln
Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- Vladimir Lenin
Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. -- Italo Calvino
The seed of revolution is repression. -- Woodrow Wilson
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace -- Patrick Pearse
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system -- Stokely Carmichael
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. -- Victor Hugo
Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on -- Vladimir Lenin
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. -- Che Guevara
Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. -- Vladimir Lenin
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. -- Malcolm X
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. -- Hannah Arendt
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. -- Huey Newton
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. -- Leon Trotsky
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. -- Stokely Carmichael
Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. -- Richard Yates
I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. -- Stokely Carmichael
Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change -- Thomas S. Power
The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit. -- Bhagat Singh
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. -- Che Guevara
Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better -- Mao Zedong
We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class -- Thomas S. Power
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. -- John Updike
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. -- Fidel Castro
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. -- Lincoln Steffens
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution. -- Fred Hampton
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. -- Huey P. Newton
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. -- Ai Weiwei
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. -- Vladimir Lenin
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. -- George C. Marshall
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay. -- Muhammad Iqbal
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation. -- Paulo Freire
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- H. G. Wells
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. -- Emma Goldman
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels. -- Bill Gates
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. -- Mao Zedong
I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. -- Fred Hampton
America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols. -- Bill Shuster
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. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. -- Kim Jong Il
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition. -- Zack de la Rocha
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. -- Steve Jobs
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. -- Nhat Hanh
Rioting is not revolutionary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Optimism is a revolutionary act -- Cameron Crowe
The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere. -- Jose Lezama Lima
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue. -- Fidel Castro
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. -- Guy Debord
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary. -- Jose Bergamin
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. -- Walter Rauschenbusch
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary -- Walter Rauschenbusch
Telling the truth is always revolutionary -- Antonio Gramsci
Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act! -- Abiola Abrams
To tell the truth is revolutionary. -- Antonio Gramsci
Every gesture is a revolutionary act. -- Fernando Pessoa
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. -- Camille Desmoulins
Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary. -- Leon M. Lederman
There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy. -- Gloria Steinem
I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy. -- Leon Trotsky
I consider myself a political revolutionary humanist. -- Bobby Seale
Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope. -- Susan Griffin
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. -- Frederic Chopin
A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education. -- Paulo Freire
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. -- Milovan Djilas
All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary. -- Fidel Castro
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. -- Assata Shakur
Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial. -- Thomas Kuhn
Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. -- Milovan Djilas
No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. -- James Connolly
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. -- Abbie Hoffman
Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded. -- Marianne van Hirtum
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change -- Assata Shakur
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. -- Vladimir Lenin
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary. -- Charles de Gaulle
I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism. -- Julian Assange

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