#revolutionary

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. ↗

— Bela Kun

#council #dictatorship #established #firmly #governing

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers. ↗

— David O. McKay

#crying #did #especially #fathers #freedom

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#against #conservatism #conservative #destructive #eminently

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#nature #revolutionary

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#object #revolutionary #same #seed #symbol

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. ↗

— Assata Shakur

#learning #practice #revolutionary #theory #education

To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#dissidents #outcasts #revolutionary-spirit #self-examination #spiritual-transformation

Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. ↗

— Che Guevara

#love

Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world. ↗

— Chris Kraus

#female #human #inspirational #revolutionary #inspirational