The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Carol P. Christ

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

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

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel Castro

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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

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

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.
Joe Slovo

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
Johann Most

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
Ralph Bakshi

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett

This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.
Adolf Galland

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell