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Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world. — Noah Levine

I've always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity. — Fidel Castro

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans. — Shashi Tharoor

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history. — Kevin O'Higgins

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes ... — David Mazzucchelli

They're a band of miners who aided and abetted an endangered royal named Snow White. They're basically revolutionaries." Hey, — Kresley Cole

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. — Hannah Arendt

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have. — Victor Serge

When they own languages, she thought, we are terrorists. When we own them, we are revolutionaries. — Lidia Yuknavitch

We are revolutionaries. — Stokely Carmichael

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out. — Ariel Dorfman

Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those — Ji-li Jiang

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. — Che Guevara

Those who seek to aspire are those who achieve Greatness. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous. — Niall Ferguson

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. — Adolf Hitler

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win? — Muriel Rukeyser

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond De Goncourt

We have to live a life that is more revolutionary than that of the revolutionaries. — Brother Andrew

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do — Linus Torvalds

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Pyotr Kropotkin

I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution. — Marty Rubin

We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody. — Alan Harrington

Revolutionaries are not infallible. — Tariq Ali

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it. — George Weah

We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Everyone is doing their job within a system. Even the revolutionaries are in a system. — Chris Terrio

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists. — Pope Pius X

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself. — G.N. Chevalier

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists — Paul Gauguin

Revolutionaries are insomniacs, too afraid of history's nightmare to sleep, too troubled by the world's ills to be less than awake. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right. — Staceyann Chin

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries. — Beryl Bender Birch

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins. — Jean-Paul Sartre

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. — Thomas Sankara

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? — Andy Zaltzman

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. — Robert Darnton

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy. — A.E. Samaan

Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus! — Carlos Wallace

It's always easier to ask questions than provide answers. Journalists - and revolutionaries, I assume - know it only too well. — Sudeep Chakravarti

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

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome. — Henry A. Kissinger

I report to the revolutionaries infiltrated among the counterrevolutionary infiltrators. — Italo Calvino

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy; the clergy of oppression. — A.E. Samaan

Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived. — Fidel Castro

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. — George Orwell

Revolutionaries can't afford to worry about tomorrow. — Diana Palmer

I come from a long line of revolutionaries. — Joy Harjo

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

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood

That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow. — William T. Vollmann

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments, — Malcolm Gladwell

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West. — Henry A. Kissinger

I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. — John Lennon

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries. — Cesar Vallejo

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks — Bernardine Dohrn

I and others may be revolutionaries but we are disciples of Mahatma Gandhi, directly or indirectly, nothing more nothing less. — Ho Chi Minh

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. — Italo Calvino

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. — Tim Jackson

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. — Lillian Hellman

By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At — Steven Pinker

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey P. Newton

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. — Christopher Lasch

Revolutionaries are born the moment they find a cause worthy of sacrifice. — Daniel K. Norris

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew. — Christopher Caldwell

Revolutionaries don't get job security. — Ruby Dee

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval. — George Takei

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me. — Assata Shakur

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. — Carolyn Heilbrun

Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries. — Robin S. Sharma