Ideological Revolution Quotes

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

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

Ideas control the world.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution.

A man can be born again ... If this be true of one, it can be true of any number. Thus, a nation can be born in a day if the ideals of the people can be changed.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

A party is only revolutionary on condition of revolutionizing the heads of women and men.

I think what's happening is that you're seeing change from existing and kind of a left right political paradigm to one that is being made into something different. Maybe an up down paradigm, or something along those lines. It's a dramatic change. It's a shift I think of all different in language.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

The ideological and cultural revolutions have been promoted successfully in the countryside with the result that the ideological and spiritual qualities of our agricultural working people have been transformed remarkably, and a great development has also been achieved in the realm of cultural life in the countryside.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Great ideology creates great times.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal

What rules the world is ideas.