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The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries .

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

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

Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.

I emphasized the significance of revolutionary strategy.

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

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

The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

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

To be a young Gaullist is to be a revolutionary!

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

A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

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

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less.

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

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

Don't mourn, Organise

I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

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

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

If I wasn't a singer, I'd be a bloodclaat revolutionary.

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

It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.

The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

Revolutionaries don't get job security.

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. Shes revolutionary; shes a warrior.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

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

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

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

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.

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

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms...

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than what we know we can do.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

Self-defense...is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

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

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.

Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

Fascism is capitalism in decay.