Quotes on Revolutionary

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

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.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

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

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

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