Quotes of Revolutionary - somelinesforyou

“ 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

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Erich Fromm

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

- Jane Fonda

“ The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ”

- Abbie Hoffman

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

- Hannah Arendt

“ Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. ”

- Camille Desmoulins

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

- Albert Camus

“ I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. ”

- Abbie Hoffman

“ If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body and that's the most revolutionary insight of all. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long. ”

- Milovan Djilas

“ Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. ”

- Mark Twain

“ 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

“ We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ 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

“ It's up to us to accept our circumstances, to make the most of our possibilities. Until we face the facts, we won't change them. ”

- Alexandra Stoddard

“ Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. ”

- Unknown

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.
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