Revolutionary Quotes - Page 13

• There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Sides, Tendencies, Shows

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• I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hurt, Friendly, Want

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• 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.

  Chris Cannon

  Spring, Ideas, Availability

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• Islam is a revolutionary faith that comes to destroy any government made by man. Islam doesn't look for a nation to be in better condition than another nation. Islam doesn't care about the land or who own the land. The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam. Any nation or power in this world that tries to get in the way of that goal, Islam will fight and destroy.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Islamic, Fighting, Men

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• I got the O.B.E because I represent England outside of England more...but thinking of me as an actor, I haven't done all the classical theatre, all the great roles. Think of Helen Mirren and me. Helen, who I adore, is a friend - should be Dame. I am the rebel, the revolutionary on the side.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Thinking, Theatre, Roles

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I do not think my painting has ever been revolutionary. It was not directed against any kind of painting. I have never wanted to prove that I was right and someone else wrong.

  Georges Braque

  Thinking, Painting, Kind

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Change, Ideas, People

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• When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

  Jane Fonda

  New York, West Coast, Left

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

  Saul Alinsky

  Past, People, Labels

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• We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

  Northrop Frye

  Dream, Feelings, Life Is

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.101, University of Toronto Press

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• I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Our Time

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

  Francois Duvalier

  People, Accepting, Disregard

  "Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers". Book by Elizabeth Abbott (p. 103), 1988.

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• The military forces of the revolutionary adversary are diffuse. One is never sure whether one has destroyed them unless one is ready to destroy a large portion of the population, and this usually conflicts with the political aim of the war and hence also violates a fundamental Clausewitzian principle.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Military, War, Political

  "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present" by William John Thomas Mitchel, (p. viii), 2011.

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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• All our moves are based on four general principles: continued use of the rifle, no waiving of historical rights, no peace, and no negotiations... Whatever form of government is established in the territory when the shadow of occupation passes away, whenever I address my fighters and revolutionaries, I shall say: 'Let our rifles be aimed at the beloved land, the land of the homeland, the land of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Moving, Rights, Government

  Journal of Palestine Studies, (p. 224), 1974.

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• Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Community, Fundamentals, May

  Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

  Barney Frank

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Barney Frank's Statement on the Inclusion of people who are Transgender in Antidiscrimination Protection Legislation, March 2008.

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• Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.95, Routledge

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• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

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• In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Government, Republic, France

  Speech on October 10, 1793. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, pp. 83-88, 1908.

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• The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

  Saddam Hussein

  Growth, Rivals, Planning

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

  Shulamith Firestone

  Alternatives, Classic, Traps

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

  Marlon Riggs

  Men, Black

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• Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, Effort, Reform

  "STEVE FORBES: Could a Chavez-Style Media Crackdown Be Coming Our Way?" by Steve Forbes, www.foxnews.com. March 24, 2010.

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• In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

  Gary Hamel

  Age, Able, Keyboards

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