Top 1200 Revolutionary War Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

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

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

"World War III, was the Cold War".

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!

I don't box, I bring war. I like war.

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

War is life war is the origin of all things.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

The use of our military in combat should first require declaration of war. I have long called for reinstating the military draft, simply because I believe strongly that a national decision to go to war must also include a broad commitment to share its burdens. Whenever Congress decides to fund a war or other U.S. combat activities, it must provide a means to pay for it-then and there-not later. If we don't have the will to fully share the burdens of war, then we have no right to send our sons and daughters into harm's way.

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

We are innocent. We are not criminals or terrorists. We are revolutionary guerillas and have been captured in the course of building a resistance to this government.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I'm no Joan of Arc, but it's pretty revolutionary having a gender illusionist selling the illusion of beauty to females.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

Every war is a war against children.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

The left have taken a really beautiful thing, male-female relationships, and turned them into a battle, a political battle, an ideological war. And if you doubt me, what is the War on Women? What the hell is it? How crazy is that entire concept, that there is a political party conducting a War on Women because they hate them. And the fact that they can sell that to their voters and make political gain on that basis is damn amazing to me. And yet how many people do you know who really believe that there's a War on Women, that Republicans/conservatives don't like women?

The only war is the war against the imagination.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

I don't think we're at war with Islam. I don't think we're at war with all Muslims. I think we're at war with jihadists.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.

It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it".

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A war put off is not a war avoided.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

The principal cause of war is war itself.

There's something grand and revolutionary still about [women] traveling alone. There are some parts of the world where you can't.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.