Revolutionary Quotes - Page 37

• If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Sacrifice, Church, Weakness

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• To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

  Kate Millett

  Rebel, Way, Spinning

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• All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Class, Three

  Christina Stead (1936). “The beauties and furies”

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• The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

  Babette Deutsch

  Men, Speaks Out, Poetry

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• I have decided to give up heterosexuality. I have decided that, while the project of altering the balance of power within heterosexual relationships is still a valid one, it is no longer one I can espouse--so to speak. There is no revolutionary hope for the heterosexual, and I have therefore decided to love myself and become a lesbian.

  Michelene Wandor

  Giving Up, Balance, Heterosexuality

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• ... in order to be a true revolutionary, you must understand love. Love, sacrifice, and death.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Love, Death, Sacrifice

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• The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

  Robert Darnton

  Mouths, American Revolution, Internet

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• As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

  Robert Darnton

  Book, Communication, Writing

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• Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Fashion, Creativity, Rocks

  "Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. July 7, 2008.

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• In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Powerful, Class, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

  Ezra Furman

  Ancient, Rebellion, Force

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system.

  Chris Terrio

  Jobs

  Source: collider.com

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• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  Victor Papanek

  Design, Responsible, Radical

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• Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Mean, Reality, Negative

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• We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

  Bill W.

  Sobriety, Individual, Outlook

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• Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Fashion, War, Winning

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• Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Dream, Real, Artist

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Three, Generations, Bounds

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• France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Political, France, Revolution

  1847 Histoire des Girondins.

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• Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.

  Chauncey Depew

  Wise, Stars, Ocean

  Chauncey Depew “The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892”

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• Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

  Che Guevara

  Real, Surface

  "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life". Book by John Lee Anderson, 2010.

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• Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Men, Leader, Mind

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 164), 1895.

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• In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Children, Past, Parent

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

  Aldous Huxley

  Soul, World, Flesh

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence - such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Violence, Action

  "The Question of Peace". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Collected Works, Vol. 21, p. 293, July–August 1915.

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