Revolutionary Quotes - Page 26

• I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

  Tony Benn

  Thinking, Community, Democracy

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Betrayal, Hands, Voice

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• All criticism is opposition. All opposition is counter-revolutionary.

  Fidel Castro

  Criticism, Opposition

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• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  Fidel Castro

  Mean, Ideas, Important

  Fidel Castro (2006). “Che: A Memoir”, p.91, Ocean Press

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• Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

  Chris Hedges

  Numbers, Force, Human Life

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.106, Nation Books

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

  Andrea Dworkin

  Movement, Liberation

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Real, Men, Two

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• I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Believe, May, Chaos

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Pyramids, Hatred

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• This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part!

  Joe Vitale

  Beautiful, Powerful, Block

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• I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, People

  "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, Tools

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". www.marxists.org. October 08, 1960.

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• A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredón [execution wall].

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Hate, Machines

  "The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise". Book by Teo A. Babun and Victor Andres Triay, p. 57, 2005.

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• Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.

  Che Guevara

  Beautiful, Trying, Quality

  "Last Letter from Papa". Letter by Che Guevara to his Children, 1965.

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• The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation

  Che Guevara

  Important, Aspiration, Alienation

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.219, Ocean Press

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• With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where mankind can live in liberty…We must accept these things with passion. It means that we must live imaginatively.

  Wifredo Lam

  Life, Change, Art

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Wifredo Lam (2002). “Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982”

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• Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

  Raymond Aron

  Revolution, Language, Speak

  Raymond Aron (1957). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

  Jerry Rubin

  Children, America, Order

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• History is the long struggle of man, by exercise of his reason, to understand his environment and to act upon it. But the modern period has broadened the struggle in a revolutionary way. Man now seeks to understand, and act on, not only his environment, but himself; and this has added, so to speak, a new dimension to reason and a new dimension to history.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Struggle, Exercise, Men

  Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

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• I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

  Julian Assange

  Feminism, Nests, Hornets

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• The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

  Kate Millett

  Goal, Feminism, Nuclear Families

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• For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

  Aeschines

  Strong, Men, Law

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• No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

  James Connolly

  Expression, Movement

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.48, Pluto Press

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• And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

  Katherine Dunn

  Military, Soldier, Terrorist Groups

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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