So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.
Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.
We are living in revolutionary times. The good news is we have everything we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground. All we need is for you to join the rest of the world to bring about a cleaner, more stable, and peaceful future.
The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary
The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
The seed of revolution is repression.
YOU find some one parade all of a sudden some -ism- as new and revolutionary socialism, for example.
Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself.
The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.