#revolutionary

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #asking #emotional #got #hear

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#change #dignity #end #establish #every

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ↗

— David Harris

#decent man #just #man #proclaim #revolutionary

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#his #last #mozart #revolutionary #years

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#i #only #probably #referred #revolutionary

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