Quotes of Revolutionist - 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Howard Zinn

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

- Rosa Luxemburg

“ 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 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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ 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

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

- George Orwell

“ The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money… ”

- Sy Leon

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

- Camille Desmoulins

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured. ”

- Suzanne La Follette

“ Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. ”

- Paul Gaugin

“ The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ”

- Frederick Douglas

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

- Hannah Arendt

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

- Abbie Hoffman

“ Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ”

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

“ In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Riots are the voices of the unheard. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Revolutions never go backward. ”

- Wendell Phillips
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