Revolutionary Quotes

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

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.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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.

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.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware.

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.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

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.