Quotes of Insurgent - somelinesforyou

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

- Jane Fonda

“ Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ”

- Edmund Burke

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

- George Orwell

“ Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: I said it was a good idea all along. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ By the end, everybody had a label — pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary … If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary. ”

- Jerry Rubin

“ Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite! ”

- Karl Marx

“ I am thirty-three — the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists. ”

- Camille Desmoulins

“ 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

“ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. ”

- Howard Zinn

“ Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. ”

- Rosa Luxemburg

“ I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. ”

- Fidel Castro

“ I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. ”

- Viorica Butnariu

“ If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. ”

- Samuel Bonom

“ The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ”

- Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

“ The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. ”

- Mariano Azuela

“ We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ”

- Heinrich Heine

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

- Joe Slovo

“ When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ 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

“ Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. ”

- William Petersen

“ 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

“ Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death… Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit… ”

- Bertrand Russell
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