Top 7 Revolutionary Leaders Quotes

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Che Guevara

Fall, Revolutionary Leaders, Apples

Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

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

Hannah Arendt

Memorable, Political Revolution, Revolutionary Leaders

New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

Steve Saint

Revolutionary Leaders, Christianity, Radical

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

Paulo Freire

Practice, Revolutionary Leaders, Invasion

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

Nature, Intelligent, Revolutionary Leaders

Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Victor Hugo

Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Paulo Freire

Thinking, Self, Revolutionary Leaders

Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.132, Bloomsbury Publishing USA