Quotes about Revolutionary Thinking

Norman Ornstein

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Peter Gary Tatchell

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

J. Hector St. John

Charles A. Lindbergh Sr.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

His son, the famous aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. The father however was generally liberal as this quotation and {609657} illustrate.

Leon Trotsky

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

Lev Davidovich Bronstein

Jose Mujica

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Revolutions do not go backward.

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

Benn Steil

Like another great mind of his time, Albert Einstein, Keynes had a preternatural ability to see relationships between complex phenomena entirely differently than generations of experts before him.

Patrick Henry

If this be treason, make the most of it!

Karl Marx

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

One does not make revolutions by halves

Jaggi Vasudev

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind

As humans develop, their mental innovations and understanding of justice, fairness, freedom and standard of living in turn drive their political ideology which in turn drives most revolutions as Humboldt postulated. And this is before he had the example of the French and Russian Revolutions much less the revolutions of South America, Asia and the fall of the Soviet Union.

Isaiah Berlin

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Sam Kinison

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.