Revolutionary Quotes - Page 9

• In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

  Gao Xingjian

  Views, Nausea, Literature

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• there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

  Mildred Cable

  Discipline, Leader, Peaceful

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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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• This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.

  C. L. R. James

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

  George Will

  War, Fate, Choices

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• If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Age, Twenties, Fifty

  "Universities and Education" (speech at University of Hong Kong), 12 Feb. 1933 See John Adams 19; Clemenceau 5; Guizot 1

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• The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

  George Orwell

  Liberty, Would Be, Poverty

  George Orwell (1947). “The English People: With 8 Plates in Colour and 17 Illus. in Black and White”, London, Collins

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• The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

  George Orwell

  Blow, Moon, Echoes

  George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

  Bill Gates

  Way, Computer, Certain

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• All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

  Andrew Jackson

  Money, Children, Father

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• To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation.

  Zeena Schreck

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Hard Work

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• We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Home

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• In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.

  Irving Kristol

  Children, Successful, Political

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• To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

  Ian Buruma

  Education, Jobs, Majority

  "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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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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• Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

  Cornel West

  Struggle, Past, Alternatives

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• What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary.

  Robert Coover

  Teaching, Writing, Matter

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

  Assata Shakur

  Rap, Government, Together

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• No matter how revolutionary something is, if you keep doing it over and over and over then it does loses it's excitement and it's high dynamics and people get used to ... get used to it like anything else you know um and then it just becomes a normal deal and then it becomes not very interesting at all.

  Sonny Bono

  People, Interesting, Doe

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• There will never be peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top. .... There is absolutely no way that government can operate successfully unless led by godly men and women operating under the laws of the God of Jacob

  Pat Robertson

  Religious, Atheist, Godly

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• Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Philosophy, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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• The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Christian, Latin, America

  Source: www.crisismagazine.com

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