R Quotes
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“Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born”
Source: Bakunin on anarchism
“Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.”
“Revolution sker aldrig för att det är acceptabelt, det händer för att allt annat blir oacceptabelt.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything!”
“Revolution starts with inconvenient accountability.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.”
Source: My Disillusionment in Russia
“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”
Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose
“Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.”
“Revolution was never sparked by political philosophy. It has ever been the price of bread that shakes the pillars of the world. Yet they lock up the thinkers and leave the bakers free.”
Source: Unseemly Science
“Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.”
“Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.”
Source: The War of the End of the World
“Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.”
“Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.”
“REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.”
“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.”
Source: Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo
“Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.”
“Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.”
“Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.”
“Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.”
“Revolutionaries don't get job security.”
“Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”
“Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.”
Source: Fidel Castro Reader
“Revolutionaries need poets, too.”
“Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).”
“Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.”
“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late”
Source: The Road to Guilford Courthouse: The American Revolution in the Carolinas
“Revolutionary act is to seek the righteous of faith.”
“Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.”
Source: Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
“Revolutionary art anticipates visionary physics. When the vision of the revolutionary artist, rooted in the Dionysian right hemisphere, combines with precognition, art will prophesy the future conception of reality.”
Source: Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
“Revolutionary art need not be overtly political in content; what is more important is that it demand a new means of perception on the part of its spectators. The subject in process/on trial can thus be fundamentally transformed. Change here, at the level of individual consciousness, is a necessary element of social change. Seen in this way, the arts are not merely reflective of social relations but are productive of social relations.”
Source: Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture
“Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses”
“Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.”
“Revolutionary’ discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.”
Source: Homage to Catalonia
“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.”
Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations
“Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.”
“Revolutionary Islam is linked to the Koran, to be sure, just as Stalinism and Maoism were linked to Das Kapital, but to explain the horrors of China's man-made famines or the Soviet gulag solely by invoking the writings of Karl Marx would be to miss the main point. Messianic violence can attach itself to any creed.”
Source: Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
“Revolutionary leaders cannot think without the people, or for the people, but only with the people.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them.”
“Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.”
Source: Woman at Point Zero
“Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Revolutionary movements look back, as well as forward, to reclaim lost or disappearing rights and privileges, real or imagined, both as a means of expressing what might otherwise be almost impossible to express, and of driving forward fresh agendas for political, economic and social change.”
Source: Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
“Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!”
Source: The Art of Being Ruled
“Revolutionary practice in any field of human existence develops by itself if one comprehends the contradictions in every new process; it consists in siding with those forces which act in the direction of progressive development.”
“Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.”
“Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.”
“Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite.”
Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.”