Revolutionary Quotes

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

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.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.

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.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.