Top 1200 Revolutionary War Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.

I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.

The President reminded us that the war in Iraq is a central battlefield in the war on terror that began the morning of September the 11th.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get securely out of this decline. This time, the war [in Iraq] is bad for the economy in both the short and long run. We could have spent trillions in research or education instead. This would have led to future productivity increases.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

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

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.

There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

I'd like to be a revolutionary leader, part of the team that brings freedom to the people of the Earth.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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.

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

I don't believe there is such thing as a just or unjust war; there are avoidable and unavoidable wars. Sometimes you have no choice but to go to war.

It's amazing that it's considered revolutionary to wear my hair the way it grows out of my head.

There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle of the law. What is human warfare but just this, - an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Men make an arbitrary code, and, because it is not right, they try to make it prevail by might. The moral law does not want any champion. Its asserters do not go to war. It was never infringed with impunity. It is inconsistent to decry war and maintain law, for if there were no need of war there would be no need of law.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.

I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.