Revolutionary Quotes - Page 8

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.

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

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

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.

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

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

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

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.

Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.

Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

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.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

I was probably the only professed revolutionary ever referred to as "cute."

I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

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

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.