Quotes of Subversive - somelinesforyou

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

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot grow up because he keeps growing. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided. ”

- General Iberico Saint Jean

“ 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

“ The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family. ”

- Paul Johnson

“ The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ”

- Henry Miller

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ”

- George Orwell

“ 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.
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