Revolutionary Quotes - Page 10

• When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period

  John Moody

  Ohio, Rivers, Water

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Don't mourn, Organise

  Joe Hill

  Mourn

  "Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill" by Clancy Sigal, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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

  John Adams

  Son, Poet, Farmers

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• Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.

  Kate Winslet

  Opportunity, Play, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.

  Kate Winslet

  Long, Preparation, Important

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.

  Daniel Craig

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "Daniel Craig Is Lord Asriel in The Golden Compass". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 4, 2007.

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• If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

  Matt Taibbi

  Reading, Rome, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• I like the incongruity of how in Iran, these people we think of as being revolutionaries or fanatics or whatever are just as aware of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader as our people are back home.

  Ben Affleck

  Home, Thinking, Iran

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2012.

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• Pick up a camera and start shooting. You need to wade in in order to figure out how to move forward and do something concrete. I firmly believe that a lot dynamic and revolutionary work flows from those who summon all of their personal energy and just go out and make something.

  Andrew Neel

  Believe, Moving, Order

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together.

  Avi Lewis

  Issues, People, Community

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

  Isaac Asimov

  Discovery, Doe, Arise

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

  George Carlin

  Function, Engineers, General Motors

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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

  Dorothy Allison

  Needs, Way, Telling The Truth

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• Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Helping, Youth, Environment

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• The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Europe, Events, Unified

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• Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Technology, Practice

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• A revolutionary leadership must accordingly practice co-intentional education.

  Paulo Freire

  Practice

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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

  Preston Manning

  Looks, Canada, Should

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• REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

  Rick Bayan

  Opportunity, Waiting, Persons

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• So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Loss, Men, Long

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• 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.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Environmental, Would Be, Forget

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• During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

  James Monroe

  Laughter, War, Giving

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• Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Order, Russia

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• Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Revolution, Evolution

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• We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.

  Bhagat Singh

  Pain, Struggle, People

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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