This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. - Doris Lessing
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief. - Max Horkheimer
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall]. - Ernesto Che Guevara
When you are trying to do something very innovative and revolutionary, you must also open yourself to a lot of questions. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking. - Johnnie Dent Jr.
We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries. - Brother Andrew
If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite? - Anton Chekhov
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. - George C. Marshall
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. - Erich Fromm
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are. - George Hammond
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement. - Ursula K. Le Guin
HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense. - Garth Risk Hallberg
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution. - William H. Willimon
Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century. - A.E. Samaan
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. - Guo Moruo
Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. - Sunday Adelaja
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. - Hannah Arendt
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. - Huey P. Newton
It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano; but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea! - Mehmet Murat ildan
They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes, clean floors, and enchiladas tapatias. - Barbara Kingsolver
An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. - John Steinbeck
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. - Noah Levine
Chris has turned out to be a revolutionary leader who started businesses for the first time of its kind that influenced the nation’s young blood and across the world. - csalamone
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times...and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson - Mitch Kynock
Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time? - Yiyun Li