Revolutionary Quotes - Page 15

• There is no one more talkative than Cubans, Cubans express their feelings, there's nobody more rebellious and revolutionary than a Cuban and I say that without chauvinism.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Feelings, Rebellious, Cuban

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• I'm kind of conscious and aware of how ridiculous everyone involved with politics or talking about politics, especially on television, is - all the shouting matches and the screaming and the over-the-top personalities, and everyone's just playing. It's like WWF for news, almost. It's really ridiculous and I really don't want to be a part of it, and I'm not trying to put on this persona of this angry revolutionary to get people to follow me.

  Aaron McGruder

  People, Personality, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was not revolutionary enough. But they forget that I am a product of the system. I worked those desks, I know those people and I still have some faith in them, that the services can be reformed.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Forget

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn't want to have anything to do with that. So I think that debate resulted in no decision being made for awhile. The problem was they left the al-Qaeda folks in Iran in the hands of their intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard, who didn't really keep an eye on them - and may not have kept an eye on them on purpose.

  Kenneth M. Pollack

  Real, Eye, Thinking

  "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.

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• 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.

  David Bowie

  Hippie, Excuse, Truest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now the masses of Latin America are electing governments they feel can take forward the democratic reforms of the last 20 years, and transform them into social and economic reforms. This is, I think, extremely important, because it also means that the left has abandoned the revolutionary solution proposed by Che Guevara and has taken the democratic path.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations in this area provoke contradictions, especially in a society like ours, because Cuba has so many revolutionary processes.

  Mariela Castro

  Innovation, Identity, Accepted

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hate, Hero, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, a revolutionary film is not a film about a revolution. It has a lot more to do with the art form. It's a film that is revolting against the old established language of cinema that had been brainwashing the people for decades. It is a film that is trying to find ways to use sound and image differently.

  Tamer El Said

  Art, People, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

  Joshua Clover

  People, Revolution, Show Me

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• Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Progress

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• I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Resistance, Recognition, Obedience

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively involved.

  Michele Bachmann

  War, Boys, Eras

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2011.

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• Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.

  Erykah Badu

  Heart, Mind, Want

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• To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Passion, Ideas, Despair

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• Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.

  James Buchan

  New York, Inspiration, Islamic

  "Inside the mind of a terrorist". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2001.

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• I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.

  Vince Cable

  People, Boss, Upset

  "Liberal Democrat Conference: Vince Cable Speech in Full". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2010.

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

  Albert Camus

  Cynical, Political, Democracy

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• Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary.

  Eric Cantona

  Firsts

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• The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Belief, Share

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Thinking, Rocks

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• Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Funny, Science, Ideas

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• We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Denial

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• Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Sick, Modernism, Expenses

  "Capitalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism". Essay by Terry Eagleton, 1985.

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• Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

  James Fenton

  Needs, Newspapers, Composer

  "Soul music" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2002.

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