Top 170 Revolutionaries Quotes & Sayings

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

You got a lot of fradulent rebels and revolutionaries who are really false prophets.

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order which crucifies him. And this problem can only be solved by blood and iron.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

We are revolutionaries.

Revolutionaries are not infallible.

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.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

Mayors typically don't do the things we're trying to do... Revolutionaries aren't typically Mayor.

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

You see Martin Luther King is dead and Huey Newton is not. And Malcolm X is dead and Bobby Seale is not. And Vernon Jordan was shot. The thing that revolutionaries, or even people who want to claim they're revolutionaries, often forget is that it doesn't make no difference what kind of wardrobe you wear, and if you speak up about Black people doing better you just risked your life.

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

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.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

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

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

Supplements are popular. They're good. They're a fast-growing market. I use it to fund the operation. Other revolutionaries rob banks and kidnap people, O.K.? I don't do that.