Revolutionary Quotes - Page 9

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

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

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

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

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Sometimes, 24 hours can bring a total revolutionary change.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

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

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

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the Czar was overthrown by this group known as the Bolsheviks. My family identified with anybody who overthrew the Czar. So they identified themselves intuitively with Bolshevism.

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.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.

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.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'

Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?