Quotes About Revolutionary

Hamilton lacked the temperament of a true-blue revolutionary. He saw too clearly that greater freedom could lead to greater disorder and, by a dangerous dialectic, back to a loss of freedom. Hamilton's lifelong task was to try to straddle and resolve this contradiction and to balance liberty and order.

Two people seemed to coexist inside George Washington's breast. One was the political militant who mouthed republican slogans; this Washington thought his troops would fight better if motivated by patriotic ideals. The other, schooled in the British military system, believed devoutly in top-down discipline and rank as necessary to a well-run army. This Washington was also the Virginia planter who felt little in common with the scruffy plebeians around him.

During one ghastly period in 1779, the continental dollar shed half its value in three weeks.

The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

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.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Sólo Riemann, incomprendido y solitario, se preocupó por establecer una nueva concepción del espacio en la que se segregaba al espacio de su inmovilidad y se posibilitaba su participación en los sucesos físicos.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

W]hen Christianity is mainly preoccupied with events in time, it is a 'revolutionary religion,' and [...] when, under mystical influences, it stresses the Eternal Gospel, of which the historical or pseudo-historical facts recorded in Scripture are but symbols, it becomes politically 'static' and 'reactionary.

Nothing could be more tragic than for men to live in these revolutionary times and fail to achieve the new attitudes and the new mental outlooks that the new situation demands.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life, and then come round.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Most of the makers of the twentieth-century mind, figures such as Freud, Heisenberg, Picasso, Joyce, and Eliot, have in common an about-face on the subject-object question and the mindmatter question; they all reject the dualism that arbitrarily and irreversibly splits the world into pieces. This rejection of dualism and the corresponding reach for monism are of the essence in understanding the revolutionary nature of twentieth-century science and art.

Now you can show your revolutionary determination." He paused. "We want you to testify against your father at the struggle meeting.